Feature Friday: Updates in Illustrator with Ashleigh Green

Join illustrator Ashleigh Green for a deep dive into the small Adobe Illustrator updates that make a big difference! From cleaner art board organization to an updated font browser to live pencil preview, these are the kind of updates us Illustrator nerds get excited about. She'll put them to work on a real project, live, and share which ones are saving her the most time. Missed a few updates? Come catch up and bring your questions!

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Ashleigh Green is a freelance illustrator, art shop owner and content creator based in Canada. She has collaborated with Marvel, The Body Shop, REI and more. Her work features cheery illustrations inspired by travel and everyday life: https://www.instagram.com/ashsgreen | www.ashleighgreen.ca

Jack Watson is a Designer and Illustrator in Cleveland, OH: https://www.instagram.com/jackwatson05 | https://www.behance.net/JackWats0n | https://jackwatson.design

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00:00 Start
00:46 Today’s Plan
04:04 Color for the Art Board
06:27 Renaming Artboards
08:43 Creating Icons
09:09 Live preview with pencil tool
10:00 pencil tool options
17:00 Smoothing tool shortcut
22:40 Choosing Fonts
23:00 Font Favorites
26:29 Discover More FOnts & Font Tabs
30:25 Process of creating her own font
33:30 Eyedropper
36:02 Blend Tool
41:30 Duplicating Artboard
46:29 FIxing the banding with gradients
48:58 Recap