The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P12

The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P12: 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- P12 Scratchboard Art Using Multiple Strokes, Effects, and Styles Overview: Apply multiple strokes to simple objects; offset strokes; apply effects to strokes; create and apply graphic styles. Artist Ellen Papciak-Rose asked consultant Sandee Cohen if there was a way to simulate scratchboard art in Illus- trator. Cohen devised a way to transform Papciak-Roses artwork using Art Brushes, multiple strokes, and stroke effects, which were then combined and saved as graphic styles. Once a series of effects is saved as a graphic style, you can easily apply that graphic style to multiple objects to create a design theme. Art directors may find this The original scratchboard art consists of simple primitive shapes method helpful for unifying and stylizing illustrations created by a number of different artists. 1 Applying Art Brushes and Fills. To create a more natu- ral-looking stroke, Cohen applied Art Brushes to simple objects supplied by Papciak-Rose. Cohen used Charcoal, Fude, Dry Ink, Fire Ash, and Pencil Art Brushes (on the Wow! CD). Select a simple object, then click on your choice of Art Brush in the Brushes palette or in a Brush Library. (For more on Art Brushes, see the Brushes chap- ter.) Next, choose basic, solid fills for each object. 2 Offsetting a stroke. To develop a loose, sketchlike look, Cohen offset some of the strokes from their fills. To offset a paths Stroke from its Fill, select the Stroke in the Appearance palette and apply Free First, highlight a stroke in the Appearance palette and Distort and Transform from the Effect >Distort & Transform menu apply either Effect > Distort & Transform > Free Distort304 Chapter 9 Live Effects & Graphic Styles or Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform to manually or numerically adjust the position of the stroke so that it separates from the fill. This gives the stroke the appear- ance of a different shape without permanently changing the path. (You can further reshape the stroke by double- clicking the Transform attribute in the Appearance pal- ette and adjusting the offset of the Stroke attribute.)3 Adding more strokes to a single path. To add to the sketchlike look, Cohen applied additional strokes to each path. First, she chose a Stroke attribute in the Appearance palette and clicked the Duplicate Selected Item icon at the This graphic illustrates the individual strokes that Cohen combined to create the multiple strokes bottom of the palette. With the new Stroke copy selected, for the face object in the final illustration she changed the color, as well as the choice of Art brush. She also double-clicked the strokes Distort & Transform effect in the Appearance palette and changed the settings to move the Stroke copys position. Cohen repeated this until she had as many strokes as she liked. To make a stroke visible only outside its fill, make sure that the object is still selected, and simply drag the stroke below the Fill in the Appearance palette.4 Working with graphic styles. To automate the styl- ing of future illustrations, Cohen used the Appearance and Graphic Styles palettes to create a library of graphic styles. Whenever you create a set of strokes and fills you Multiple Strokes applied to an object shown in the Appearance palette; appearance attributes like, click the New Graphic Style icon in the Graphic saved in the Graphic St ...