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👋 Welcome to the latest edition of my monthly motion design newsletter, where I bring you fresh tutorials, a sneak peak of what’s coming soon, a handy tip, and a random recommendation!

🥳 New

Last month, I published videos #3 and 4 on YouTube as part of the Adobe Illustrator Essentials series. I'm releasing these every other week but all 8 videos are available now as a class on Skillshare.

I also published Illustrate with Shapes: Design Vector Graphics in Adobe Illustrator.​

In this beginner-friendly class, you’ll learn how to combine basic shapes to create more complex illustrations in Adobe Illustrator (no drawing skills required).

🤫 Sneak Peak

I’m almost done rerecording my very first class, Easy Animated Icons in Adobe After Effects. This class is the third class in the 3 class series that includes Adobe Illustrator Essentials (which is also free on YouTube) and Illustrate with Shapes.

⚡ Quick Tip

You can save selections in Adobe Illustrator. This can be handy if you have objects across multiple layers that you’ll need to select and manipulate many times as you work on an illustration.

First select the objects. Next click the Save Selection icon at the bottom of the Layers Panel:

Name your selection.

To access the saved selection (i.e. select those objects again), click the Save Selection button again and choose your saved selection:

👉 Random Recommendation

🌎 This recommendation is perfect for April as Earth Day/Month (although I think we should celebrate and care for the Earth everyday)! I recently finished reading Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life by Ferris Jabr.

This book is full of interesting facts and stories about how life interacts with the environment to make Earth the home we know today. I’m not sure how you could walk away from this book without a heightened appreciation and awe of our world. 🌏

Megan Friesth

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