The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P13

The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P13: 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- P13 Colorful Masking Fitting Blends into Custom Shapes Advanced Technique Overview: Create a com- plex blend; mask it with a custom masking object; create a second mask-and- blend combination; make a two-object mask using compound paths. The best way to learn how to mask is to make some masked blends. With Laurie Graces pencils, youll learn how to mask complex blends to fit into custom shapes. And with the patriotic corners of Danny Pelavins base- ball illustration, youll learn how to mask one blend into two different objects by using compound paths. 1 Creating the basic elements not requiring masking. Create your basic objects. For her pencils, Grace created The gradient for a pencil body the long barrel of the pencil with a gradient fill. 2 Creating the first mask-and-blend combination. To prepare a mask for the pencils, create a closed object out- lining the shaved wood and pencil tip, and Lock it (Object menu). To ensure that your blend will completely fill the Creating objects and blending them in pairs, mask, make sure that each created object extends beyond then creating an object to use as a mask the mask. Then select and blend each pair of adjacent objects (see the Blends, Gradients & Mesh chapter). Grace created the slanted outside objects first and the center object last so the blends would build from back to front towards the center. Unlock your pencil-tip object, choose Object > Arrange >Bring to Front, select the blends with the mask object and choose Object > Clipping Mask> Selecting the blends with an overlying object designed as a mask; the blends masked Make. Then Object >Group the mask and the blend.334 Chapter 10 Advanced Techniques3 Preparing the next masking objects and mask. Select and copy your mask, then select and lock the mask with the masked objects to keep from accidentally select- ing any of them as you continue to work. Next, use Paste in Front to paste a copy of your previous mask on Completed objects selected and locked, then a copy of the last mask made into a new mask top, and make any adjustments necessary to prepare this object as the next mask. Grace cut and reshaped a copy of the full pencil-tip mask until it correctly fit the colored lead at the top. Hide this new mask-to-be (Object >Hide Selection) until youve completed a new set of blends. New objects before and after blending, and after being masked4 Creating a new mask that overlays the first. Create and blend new pairs of objects as in Step 2. When your blends are complete, reveal (Object >Show All) your hid- den masking object and Bring to Front to place the mask on top of these latest blends. Then select the colored-tip blends with this top object, make a mask as in Step 2 and, as before, Group them together for easy re-selection. Rotating a copy of a line about a circles center Finally, Unlock the first blends (Object >Unlock All), 11.25°, then applying Transform Again 7 times select the entire piece and Group it all together.5 Making a mask from a compound path. Create a blend to be masked by two objects. As Pelavin did for his patriotic corners, start with a circle as a template. Turn on View > Smart Guides and use the Pen tool to draw a Coloring every other line and blending in pairs straight line from the circles center point to its b ...