Published on
May 15, 2009 in
tips and video.
Tags: Adobe Illustrator, art, artist, Bezier, cartoonist, Illustration, illustrator, productivity, screencast, technique, tip, tutorial, vector, video.
In this video, I am sharing with you a vector path creation technique to speed up the process of creating curved paths by adding intermediate anchor points after your corners have been created. I used to create my anchor points as I was following the curve of the shape I was tracing. Instead, with this technique the anchor points are added to your vector path after your corners have been created, allowing Illustrator to approximate the length of the curve handles for you with much greater accuracy the first time around.
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Published on
April 17, 2009 in
tips.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, CS3, CS4, Illustration, illustrator, software, troubleshooting, vector.
For longer than I can remember, I have been flustered with the Flatten Transparency feature in Adobe Illustrator CS3 and CS4. Very often I use the excellent Layer Targeting feature introduced into recent versions of Adobe Illustrator, however I found that when using the Flatten Transparency feature, it seemed to ignore the attributes of the Targeting, which forced me to find lengthy workarounds to solve this. Turns out there was an approach to solving this that I had overlooked…
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Published on
January 23, 2009 in
Illustration.
Tags: art, avatar, cleveland, drawing, Illustration, illustrator, ohio, portrait, positively cleveland, vector.
I recently finished up the first round of a series of custom avatar illustrations for the Cleveland, Ohio convention and visitor’s bureau Positively Cleveland. The initial set of avatar illustrations were for the “web women” of Positively Cleveland — the main online team for their website.
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Published on
January 14, 2009 in
Tutorials, software and video.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, artist, cartoon, Creative Suite, CS4, drawing, how-to, illustrator, keyboard shortcuts, Mac, Photoshop, productivity, screencast, shortcuts, sketch, software, technique, tool, tutorial, upgrade, vector, video, Wacom.
Another brief video in my series introducing some great new features in Photoshop CS4 for artists, cartoonists, illustrators and anyone else who sketches or draws using Photoshop.
This video features the excellent new keyoard shortcuts that allow you to drag-resize the size of the brushes using the mouse pointer.
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