Feb17
Creating technical illustrations in Illustrator is a matter of getting the correct workflow. We show you how in our Adobe Illustrator training courses. To create a professional-looking 3D mock-up of an engineering part like this spark-plug, first create a new document, A4 size, for example. Change the orientation to landscape. Next we need to import our reference, whether this is... Read more...
Sep27
The Illustrator Blend tool is a fast and easy way of creating precisely graduated increments of colour between several identical objects. We demonstrate this valuable tool in our Adobe Illustrator training courses. First of all create a new document in Illustrator, 100 x 100 mm, using the RGB colour mode, for example. Then create a rectangle with the Rectangle tool... Read more...
Jun30
Creating compound objects in Adobe Illustrator has been made even easier with the new Shape Builder tool. We demonstrate its versatility in our Illustrator training courses. For example, to create the complex shape of the cloud shown here, the old method was to create several ellipses with the Ellipse tool. We would use a white stroke with no fill, and... Read more...
Jun15
In these Illustrator blog posts we describe how to create a simple landscape and sun using some of the basic drawing tools. These are some of the many features we explore in our Adobe Illustrator courses. The next step would be to create the sky, clouds, sun and trees. Firstly, the sky: create a rectangle and add a gradient blend... Read more...
