Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals: Develop skills in vector graphic illustration and build a strong design portfolio with Illustrator 2022

✍ Scribed by Clint Balsar

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Build your own designs using vector shapes and apply design principles when creating projects in Adobe Illustrator with the help of this full-color guide

Key Features

• Apply industry trends and methods and move from concept to completion of designs
• Manipulate tools within the software to make your creative process smoother
• Master the technique of using tools such as the Shaper Tool, Shape Builder Tool, and the Live Paint Bucket

Book Description

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based art tool for visual creatives. It is an industry-standard tool that helps you take a design from concept to completion, including the process of peer collaboration and client feedback.

Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you'll begin to build confidence as you master the methods of successful illustrators in the industry by exploring crucial tools and techniques of Adobe Illustrator. You'll learn how to create objects using different tools and methods while assigning varied attributes and appearances. Throughout the book, you'll strengthen your skills in developing structures for maintaining organization as your illustration grows.

By the end of this Adobe Illustrator book, you'll have gained the confidence you need to not only create content in the desired format and for the right audience but also build eye-catching vector art based on solid design principles.

What you will learn

• Master a wide variety of methods for developing objects
• Control files using layers and groups
• Enhance content using data-supported infographics
• Use multiple artboards for better efficiency and asset management
• Understand the use of layers and objects in Illustrator
• Build professional systems for final presentation to clients

Who this book is for

This book is for creative illustrators with basic to intermediate-level experience with vector-based software who want to take their existing skills to the next level. Prior knowledge of vector-based illustration concepts will help you get the most out of this Adobe Illustrator software book and produce impressive results.

Table of Contents

1. Building a Foundation beyond the Basics
2. Prepping for Illustrator
3. Developing and Organizing Objects
4. Drawing with the Pencil, Paintbrush, Pen, and Shape Tools
5. Editing and Transforming Objects
6. Advanced Attribute Design
7. Powerful Typography Options in Adobe Illustrator
8. Preparing Artwork for Presentation
9. Utilizing Multiple Artboards
10. Advanced Layer Development and Organization
11. Extending Illustrator Through Third-Party Tools and the iPad
12. Illustrator Mastery – Advanced Techniques and Shortcuts

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright and Credits
Dedications
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1 – Reviewing the Necessary Knowledge
Chapter 1: Building a Foundation beyond the Basics
Technical requirements
Creating a file
Workspaces and preferences
Workspaces
Custom workspaces
Custom preferences
Contextual menus
Object attributes
Tools and the Control panel
The Bezier curve
Control panel
Additional panels and shortcuts
Appearance panel
Properties panel
The grid and guides
Grid
Rulers
Guides
What's new in Adobe Illustrator 26.3.1?
Adobe Sensei
Illustrator on desktop
Illustrator on the iPad
Summary
Chapter 2: Prepping for Illustrator
Technical requirements
Developing a plan
Utilizing resources
Media types
Artboards
View options
Multiple artboards within one file
Combination of different-sized artboards in a single file
Combination of Landscape and Portrait mode artboards in a single file
Bleeds
RAM, scratch disks, and GPU performance
Digital asset management plan for organization and computer maintenance
Summary
Part 2 – Advanced Illustrator Methods
Chapter 3: Developing and Organizing Objects
Technical requirements
Groups and compound paths
Groups
Compound paths
Layers and selecting
Layers
Selecting
Migrating objects into other layers or sublayers
Summary
Chapter 4: Drawing with the Pencil, Paintbrush, Pen, and Shape Tools
Technical requirements
Making the Pencil tool work for you
Loading and creating brush profiles
Loading brush profiles
Creating brush profiles
Blob Brush tool
Advanced training on the Pen tool and anchor point editing
Advanced training on the Pen tool
Advanced training on anchor point editing
Exploring simple shape tools and the Shaper tool to develop more advanced objects
Shape tools
Shaper tool
Combining shapes with the Shape Builder tool
The Pathfinder panel for heavy lifting
Compound paths
Compound shapes
Summary
Chapter 5: Editing and Transforming Objects
Technical requirements
Anchor-level editing
Transformations and their options panels
The Effect panel and its options
Summary
Chapter 6: Advanced Attribute Design
Technical requirements
Fill options and color control
Multiple fills and strokes through the Appearance panel
Variable width profiles and vector pack brushes for strokes
Variable width profiles
Vector pack brushes
Dynamic tools for greater options
Shaper Tool
Live shape options
Dynamic Symbols
Summary
Chapter 7: Powerful Typography Options in Adobe Illustrator
Technical requirements
Exploring font structure and personality
Using ligatures and alternatives
Designing with text on a path
Drawing using Snap to Glyph
Summary
Part 3 – Real-World Applications
Chapter 8: Preparing Artwork for Presentation
Technical requirements
Starting with the end in mind
Creating industry-standard presentations
Brand style guides
Comp cards
Output methods for more media options
Mobile, Web, Print, Film & Video, and Art & Illustration
Asset Export
Export for Screens
Summary
Chapter 9: Utilizing Multiple Artboards
Technical requirements
Setting up a document with an appropriate preset or template
Adding additional artboards
Labeling, arrangement, and additional options
Summary
Chapter 10: Advanced Layer Development and Organization
Technical requirements
Using the Artboards panel to your advantage
Organizing layers with objects, documents, and artboards in mind
Using groups, nested groups, and Isolation Mode for improved workflow
Summary
Chapter 11: Extending Illustrator Through Third-Party Tools and the iPad
Technical requirements
Adobe Stock & Marketplace in your Creative Cloud app
Adobe Stock
Adobe Fonts
Adobe Exchange
Substance 3D
Creative Cloud libraries
Powerful and creative plugins from Astute Graphics
Variety
Methods of use
Cineware by Maxon for 3D objects
Substance 3D in Illustrator
Illustrator for iPad
Summary
Chapter 12: Illustrator Mastery – Advanced Techniques and Shortcuts
Technical requirements
Logo development using the Outline view and Shape Builder
Mood board development using Pattern and Repeat for background fills
Pattern
Repeat
Astute Graphics – MirrorMe
Comp card with advanced typography settings
Illustration with texture fills
Applying texture with a pattern swatch
Applying texture using a raster-based image
Applying texture using Astute Graphics – Texturino
Summary
Index
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