The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P11

The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P11: Sharon Steuer is the originator of The Illustrator Wow! Books. Whennot working on Wow! books, Sharon is a painter, illustrator, columnistfor creativepro.com, and the author of Creative Thinking in Photoshop:A New Approach to Digital Art. She lives in Connecticut with her cats,Puma and Bear, and radio star husband, Jeff Jacoby. She is extremelygrateful to her co-authors, editors, testers, Wow! team members (pastand present), Adobe, and Peachpit for making this book possible....
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The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P11 Basic Highlights Making Highlights with Transparent Blends Overview: Create your basic objects and a light-colored highlight shape; use blends to make the highlights; scale the highlights to fit. Using transparency, highlights are now as simple as creating a blend in the correct highlight shape. For help creating smooth contoured blends, see Unlocking Real- ism in the Blends, Gradients & Mesh chapter. 1 Creating your basic objects and determining your basic highlight shape and color. Artist Sharon Steuer The original objects (locked in the layers palette) shown with the basic highlight shape created this Bubbles image using overlaying transpar- ent radial gradients (to see how she created the hill, see Rolling Mesh in the Blends, Gradients & Mesh chapter). She modified an oval with the Direct-selection tool to create her basic highlight shape. After creating your main objects, make a light-colored highlight object on top. Use the Layers palette to lock everything except the high- lighted object (see the Layers chapter for help). The highlight objects before blending (the outer 2 Creating the highlight. Select the highlight shape and object is set to 0% Opaque in the Transparency palette); after blending in 22 steps; the blend Copy, choose Edit > Paste in Back, then Object > Lock. shown at actual size Now, select and shrink the front copy (for scaling help see the Zen chapter). Choose Object >Unlock All, then set the Opacity of this selected outer object to 0% in the Transparency palette. Select both objects, then with the Blend tool, click on one anchor point of the outer object, then Option/Alt-click on the corresponding anchor point of the inner object and specify the number of blend steps (Steuer chose 22 steps). Steuer scaled copies of her high- The final blend in place and shown in a regis- tration circle for easy scaling on other bubbles light blend (with a registration circle) for each bubble.274 Chapter 8 Transparency & AppearancesNancy StahlNancy Stahl createda soft, airbrushedlook throughout herillustration for The Illus-trator 9 Wow! Book coverby using opaque-to-transparent blends, asdescribed in the BasicHighlights lesson oppo-site. Shown bottom leftare the steps Stahl usedin creating the hat band:the first two figures inthe first diagram showher custom PatternBrush and that brushapplied to a path (seethe Brushes & Symbolschapter for help withbrushes), third downshows the opaque-to-transparent blendson top of the brushedpath, next are the brushand blends masked, atbottom is that maskedgroup on the hat colors,with the brushed pathset to a Multiply modewith a 65% Opacity(Transparency palette).At bottom right is thegondolier with andwithout the opaque-to-transparent blends. Chapter 8 Transparency & Appearances 275 Tiffany Larsen In this Illustration about Mardi Gras nightlife, blocks of color. Here, Larsen also introduced a artist Tiffany Larsen combined a posterized third color (turquoise) within the transparent look with layers of subtle transparency to smoke swirls. She applied varying opacities of create depth and atmosphere. Larsen typically 10%-30% using the opacity slider in the Trans- uses two colors in her illustrations. The primary parency palette, all with the Blending mode set color, of multiple shades, creates texture. The to Normal. The complex layering o ...