I attended two courses this week for Adobe Illustrator. Bizarrely, it’s not a program I’ve used before, even though I edit using Premiere and use Photoshop daily for work. There were some development opportunities available in my team, though, so I thought it might be interesting to take a formal approach to learning the program rather than my usual self-teaching.

I was surprised how good the course was!

I was also retrospectively shocked at how much time I’d spent trying to hack Photoshop to do what Illustrator is built to do: design. It was a real eye-opening course which set my mind off in a million directions on what I could create next. So whilst I come to terms with it, I’d like to share with you the first object I’ve designed with my new knowledge: a sparkly diamond, because… why not? I’m happy with it. It looks sexy.