Illustrator What advice would you give someone just starting illustrator?

[kymg]

What advice would you give an illustrator newbie? What do you wish you had known when you first started using Illustrator?

 

[ALB68]

Spend a few dollars and sign up at lynda.com. You will learn faster and better there than trying to do it on your own.

 

[Steve]

Spend a few dollars and sign up at lynda.com. You will learn faster and better there than trying to do it on your own.

Exactly what I was going to say , and you can get a free 10 day trial.
If you don't like it, it costs you nothing.

 

[hawkeye]

For right now:
Free Online Creative Class - Video Rebroadcast | CreativeLive - Learn. Be Inspired.
https://www.creativelive.com/watch5

 

[agentmoeller]

Learn how to use the pen tool!!!

 

[Hoogle]

Practise and then practise some more, from using photoshop, I was not so keen on using illustrator, I knew PS very well and illustrator did not seem logical to me, But after sticking it out and working at it now I wish a lot of features from illustrator were carried over to Photoshop.

I learnt more by trying to recreate already existing images, once you get the hang of it then I have to say illustrator is very powerful and makes life very easy in most ways.