Adobe Illustrator’s powerful and versatile toolset is used for everything from fine art and technical illustration to print layout to website interface design. Strong Illustrator skills will provide you a distinct advantage in the professional graphic design market. The projects in this book were designed to represent a variety of common Illustrator projects, from icon and logo design to product packaging to infographics. You will learn to:
- Create and combine basic shapes to create complex illustrations.
- Define and manipulate Bézier curves to control fine detail in an illustration.
- Apply colors, gradients, and visual effects to achieve both realistic and artistic effects in a vector illustration.
- Use layers and sublayers to manage complex artwork.
- Work with artboards to manage multiple pages and design variations in a single Illustrator file.
- Create and manipulate type in a variety of contexts, from logo design to brochure layouts.
- Experiment with Illustrator’s artificial intelligence options to create new graphic elements from simple text prompts.
- Use time-saving assets such as libraries and symbols to improve your workflow.
- Create graphic and CSS assets for a web design workflow directly within Illustrator.
- Save files with appropriate settings to meet various print and digital media requirements.
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