For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been
showcasing the world's best artists and designers working in Adobe
Illustrator. In this edition of the best-selling and award-winning
Illustrator WOW! Book, you'll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and
techniques derived from actual projects from top illustrators. You'll
discover exciting ways to create complex effects, learn fresh ways to
use venerable tools to speed up your workflow, and find updated
information on features through the 2019 CC release. This edition is
loaded with lessons, technical information, and stunning artwork
galleries including:
- Coloring with Freeform Gradients, Gradients, Mesh
- Transforming with Puppet Warp
- Painting and generating artwork with raster brushes
- Harnessing Live Corners/Rectangles, and new reshaping tools
- Mastering type effects and controls
- Creating airbrush and neon effects with gradients on strokes
- Quickly styling with multiple lines, fills, and effects
- Creating complex repeating patterns
- Forming 3D and perspective effects
- Exploring different ways to globally change artwork
- Preparing and saving artwork for print and web
- Using Adobe Illustrator with Adobe Photoshop and other apps
Register your book at peachpit.com to download artwork that you can
manipulate in Adobe Illustrator, see the "How to use this book" section
for details.
"This book has the perfect mix of inspiration and instruction-I have yet
to find a better motivational tool for using Illustrator to push the
envelope and create art that forces people to notice."
MORDY GOLDING, Senior Director of Content, lynda.com
"Every Illustrator user should have a copy of the WOW! book. Period."
DAVID BLATNER, co-publisher of CreativePro.com and InDesignSecrets.com
