Synopses & Reviews
The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator—now completely reorganized, fully updated, and created for intermediate through professional users of Illustrator CS5 For years, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this completely updated edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you’ll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS5, Sharon shows you how to integrate the new perspective grid, Shape Builder tool, Bristle Brushes, transparency in gradient mesh, new drawing modes, multiple artboards, and more. This edition is loaded with new lessons, galleries, and stunning new artwork that features:
- Creating artwork with the dynamic Perspective Grid
- Fast construction with the Shape Builder tool and drawing modes
- Working with the painterly and naturalistic Bristle Brushes
- Creating variety in strokes with the new Width tool
- Enhanced Web, Flash, and animation workflow
- Fast and easy masking using the Draw Inside mode
- Layering transparency in photorealistic gradient mesh
- Managing multiple artboards with the new Artboards panel
- Integrating Blob Brush artwork with Live Paint
- Working quickly using the improved Appearance panel
For intermediate through professional-level illustrators.
Synopsis
With its practical, yet beautiful examples, this book focuses on real-world tips, tricks, and techniques extracted from the artwork of more than 100 of the best Illustrator artists. Along the way, the book incorporates new Adobe Illustrator CS4 features and is accompanied by a CD.
Synopsis
For years, Sharon Steuer and her international Wow! team have been reaching out to the world of professional illustrators to showcase the range and quality of work these artists are doing in Illustrator. In this revised edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator Wow! Book, you’ll find tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from more than 100 of the world’s top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS4, Sharon shows you how to integrate projects using multiple artboards, work transparency into gradients, and draw with the new Blob Brush tool. You’ll not only learn how to “think in Illustrator” with the Zen of Illustrator lessons, you’ll be guided in a wide range of techniques essential for mastering Adobe Illustrator. This edition is loaded with new artwork and lessons that cover:
- Basic and advanced techniques with the new Multiple Artboards feature
- Preparing Illustrator files for work in Photoshop
- Working with the Gradient Annotator and transparency
- Blob Brush tool artwork and integration with Live Paint
- Blending modes and transparency
- More masking with LiveType
- Expressive brushwork and symbolism
- Taking advantage of the improved Appearance panel
- New lessons for creating glows and highlights
- Creating photorealistic mesh
About the Author
Award-winning artist, author, teacher and digital art guru, Sharon Steuer has been a major force in the digital art world for more than two decades. Her traditional and digital artwork has been exhibited widely, with awards for painting including the national Faber Birren Color Award and Windsor Newton Painting Award. Sharon is a regular columnist for creativepro.com, and is author of Creative Thinking in Photoshop: A New Approach to Digital Art as well as all editions of the best-selling Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book, which has twice received the Ben Franklin Award for best computer book.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1) Your Creative Workspace
Iso mode
Layers
Appearances
Targeting
Panels and workspaces
Basic multiple artboards
2) Creative Type & Layout
Advanced multiple artboards
Type and design stuff
Symbols and effects for artboards
3) Creative Construction
New Drawing Modes (normal, behind, inside)
Pathfinder
LivePaint
Shape Builder
Path Join enhancements
LiveTrace
4) Creative Strokes
Bristle Brush
Blob Brush
New Art Brush Scale Option
Variable Width Art/Pattern Brush
Symbols
New Strokes
5) Creative Coloring
Blends
Gradients Mesh
Live Color part 2
6) Creative Complexity
Masking
Transparency
3D
Perspective Grid
Other Live Effects
7) Creative Associations
Working with other programs