I'm giving away one spot in Designing for Lasers: Adobe Illustrator Edition, my complete beginner course for designing your own laser cut files from scratch. A $397 founding-member spot, yours for life. Add your email to enter.
If you own a laser, you already know the frustration. The file you picture in your head almost never exists the way you want it. This is your shot at the skills to finally build it yourself.
Files you can't fix. You buy a design and open it to a tangle of stray anchor points and rogue lines. Somewhere in the cleanup it hits you: if you knew how to build it yourself, you'd have saved the time and the money.
The same design as everyone else. When everybody is selling the same handful of files, you either blend into a sea of identical products or get dragged into competing on price. Neither is where you want to be.
Ideas with nowhere to go. You've got a head full of designs you'd love to make, the ones that would actually set you apart, but they stay stuck there because you don't yet know how to bring them to life.
One winner gets the course that changes that. Instead of leaning on what's already out there, you'll learn to open a blank artboard and build exactly what you picture, clean and cut ready from the very first line.
The course starts from the very beginning and builds your toolkit one piece at a time, across more than 50 videos and exercises and over 10 hours of instruction. By the end, you'll be comfortable navigating Illustrator and confident setting up files that are ready to cut.
A standalone read to get everyone on the same page before module one.
Create a new file, learn your way around Illustrator, and standardize your setup so it matches mine as we go.
The heart of the course: shapes, smart guides, colors and RGB codes, saving, groups and layers, text, and the align, transform, and arrange properties.
A real deep dive into the Pen tool across several lessons, plus the Pencil, Paintbrush, Blob Brush, and Smooth tools.
The Pathfinder tools and the Shape Builder tool, where simple shapes start turning into real designs.
Live Paint, Image Trace, and the Repeat, Radial, Mirror, and Objects on Path features.
Every tool is tied back to laser cutting, so you always know why it matters for your machine and not just what it does.
After week 6, all seven projects unlock for you to work through at your own pace, each one built to put everything from the lessons and exercises to work. From a dog portrait to building a box, they push you to put those keyboard shortcuts to use, with smaller mini projects woven into your weekly exercises along the way.
Over 10 hours of instruction. Every module and every lesson, available to you for life.
Live every Wednesday at 4 pm Eastern to review that week's exercise. Can't make it? Every live is saved and added to the course.
A members only Facebook group to ask questions, share your work, and get unstuck. If you're wondering something, someone else probably is too.
The course comes with Illustrator templates, workbooks to follow along, and transcripts, so you've got real resources to work with, not just videos to watch.
Plus the mini projects woven through your weekly exercises.
Learn on your schedule, revisit anything, and come back as often as you like. A $397 founding-member spot, yours to keep.
You own a laser (Aeon, Thunder, xTool, Trotec, Epilog, and others all welcome) and want to design your own files instead of buying or settling for someone else's.
You're brand new to Adobe Illustrator, or you've poked around but never felt like you really knew what you were doing.
You want a clear, start to finish path rather than scattered videos that assume you already know the basics.
You do not need any design experience to start. You just need your laser, a subscription to Adobe Illustrator, and the willingness to learn.
I've been designing for the laser community since 2020, and my work has a look people recognize. I'm known for mixing woods, paying close attention to grain direction, and building complex, intarsia inspired designs where every piece is chosen to fit. It's the difference between a flat cut out and something that feels crafted.
That style is the whole reason I built this course. Designs like that don't come from a free file or a lucky download. They come from knowing how to build clean, intentional files in Adobe Illustrator, piece by piece. I've sold tens of thousands of cut files to makers around the world, and my work has been featured in laser publications and by major laser manufacturers.
I run a small team out of my warehouse here in Ohio, and we design and test our work every day, so when I teach you something, it's because we actually do it. And it all starts the same place yours will, with a blank artboard. I built this course to hand you that skill directly, so you can stop relying on other people's files and start making exactly what you imagine.
One winner gets full, lifetime access to the entire course, every weekly live, the private community, and all seven projects — the complete $397 founding-member spot. Drop your email below to enter. That's it.
Just add your email in the box above. That's your entry, one per person. No purchase, no catch.
Full, lifetime access to Designing for Lasers: Adobe Illustrator Edition, the complete $397 founding-member spot. That's every lesson, every weekly live, the private community, and all seven projects, yours to keep for life.
I'll draw one winner at random and announce it live on Wednesday, July 1 at 3 pm Eastern in the Laser Art & Design Facebook group. Join now to see if you win — you don't have to be there live to win.
The winner is announced live in the group on Wednesday, July 1 at 3 pm Eastern, and I'll reach out to the winner directly too, so you don't have to be there live to win. Join the Laser Art & Design Facebook group to follow along.
Nothing at all. There's nothing to buy to enter, now or later.
Absolutely. The course starts at the very beginning and assumes no design experience, so a complete beginner can win and dive right in.
To take the course, yes. It teaches Illustrator specifically, so the winner will want an active subscription to follow along.
You'll stay on my list and be among the first to hear when enrollment opens to everyone. You're not losing anything by entering.
