How to Do Everything with Illustrator CS

David Karlins

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Lucie Ericksen
Elizabeth Jang

Illustrators
Kathleen Fay Edwards
Melinda Moore Lytle
Lyssa Wald

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Lucie Ericksen

Cover Series Design
Dodie Shoemaker

Cover Illustration
Bruce K. Hopkins

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Dedication

Dedicated to every illustrator who needs to enhance his or her skills to get a job!

About the Author

David Karlins teaches graphic and interactive design at the University of California Extension and in San Francisco State University s Multimedia Studies Program. He is a graphic and web consultant and designer and the author of a dozen books on graphic and web design, including Build Your Own Web Site (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2003) and Adobe Illustrator 10 Virtual Classroom (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001). Contact David through his web site, www.davidkarlins.com.

About the Illustrator

Bruce K. Hopkins is the lead illustrator for this book. He has been a freelance illustrator for 20 years, the last 12 of which he has also worked as a fine artist. Bruce has produced artwork for a variety of illustration projects, including educational toys, novelty prints for apparel, catalogs and packaging, digital illustration for technical manuals, patent drawings, and a teaching book for children. For the last two years he has been focusing much of his energy on creating fine art and promoting himself as a fine artist. His fine art works include an ongoing botanical series painted in gouache , a series of more than 200 geometric digital giclee prints called the Space series, an ongoing collection of nude figure studies on paper, and, most recently, a series of local landscapes . Contact Bruce through his web site at www.bkhopkins.com or via e-mail at [e-mail].

Acknowledgments

Creating this book presented a unique and special mission. We set out to create a book that both clearly and completely explained how to do everything in Illustrator and used artwork that provided real-world examples and creative inspiration.

A unique and special group of people helped me meet that challenge. In creating the basic content of this book, I drew heavily on my experiences teaching Illustrator and on the questions, discoveries, complaints, and inspiration provided by my students. I ve also drawn from my professional design interactions with clients , and the book includes insights from those experiences as well.

To solve the challenge of providing creative, useful, and aesthetic illustrations throughout the book, I turned to three sources. First and foremost, I drew on the amazing portfolio of Bruce K. Hopkins. Bruce has literally done it all in the realm of Illustrator artwork, ranging from fine art to technical illustrations. Being able to access, dissect, rearrange, and just plain mess with Bruce s amazing inventory of projects was a huge element of making this book the combination of technique and aesthetics that we were aiming to produce.

I also drew on projects created by students in my online Illustrator course in San Francisco State University s Multimedia Studies Program. Those students generously shared the results of hours of their hard work and creativity.

And I had the audacity to ask the most successful graphic designers in the business to let me share and deconstruct some of their best projects for the Behind the Scenes gallery at the end of this book.

Finally, this book required exponentially more blood, sweat, and tears (of joy ”of course!) from the editors, artists , and production folks at McGraw-Hill/Osborne. My appreciation to all of them!