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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By : Balsar
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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

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By: Balsar

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part 1 – Reviewing the Necessary Knowledge
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Part 2 – Advanced Illustrator Methods
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Part 3 – Real-World Applications

Comp card with advanced typography settings

So far, we have been concentrating more heavily on the drawing and compositional aspects of creating Illustrator artwork, but projects often require a good amount of text design, as well.

Let's go over a few items you should be aware of when developing any project that requires a considerable amount of text, such as a talent comp card. This publication will require several entries based on the talent's statistics. Although the tradition of the comp card is rooted in the modeling industry, variations can be made for actors, musicians, and others.

To compose all this content, I would recommend using several different textboxes and using the alignment tools to arrange them. This will allow you to rearrange your composition with more flexibility, as you are looking for the best layout. Here are some additional suggestions for using different text layouts in your project:

  • Selection of a font: Readability should be a key...

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