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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By : Clint Balsar
Book Image

Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By: Clint 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)
1
Part 1 – Reviewing the Necessary Knowledge
4
Part 2 – Advanced Illustrator Methods
10
Part 3 – Real-World Applications

Multiple fills and strokes through the Appearance panel

Using the Appearance panel is crucial to becoming more efficient with your process of creating within Illustrator. It allows you to have a visible record of the attributes assigned to any selected object, as well as quick access for adding to or editing attributes.

By utilizing opacity and blending methods, you can apply multiple fills to any object, and they will be able to have a blended appearance. You can also add multiple strokes that can also benefit from utilizing opacity and blending methods and can also be made visible due to the alignment method chosen or the width of the strokes. By staggering their alignment and/or changing their width, they will be visible beside each other, rather than directly on top of one another (see Figure 6.6):

Figure 6.6 – Multiple fills and strokes

To accomplish an appearance similar to what you see in Figure 6.6, you will need to open the Appearance panel...