Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Illustrator
Product Description
Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Illustrator is the first book of its kind to show how Adobe Illustrator can be used in the fashion, fashion illustration and textile industries. Developed as a companion book to Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Photoshop, ISBN: 0-13-049409-7, the book uses a simple step-by-step format to cover the complete digital rendering process–from concept to consumer. Readers will learn how to use the software to create story boards, mood boards, logos, hang-tags, flats, fabric repeats and more! Over 1,000 images to take the guesswork out of replicating industry information. Shows how to use Adobe Illustrator to render vector images specific to fashion such as illustrations, technicals, fabric repeats, logos and presentation boards. Provides more than just a computer manual by showing how to use the software during each stage of the design process. Covers all aspects including: storyboards, moodboards, logos, hang-tags, merchandise boards, flats, technical renderings, croquis etc. Discusses how to prepare images for digital portfolios, use online URL’s for locating jobs, etc. Provides background on the fundamental concepts that should be considered during the digital rendering process. Captures the flavor of the industry and keeps readers focused on how Adobe Illustrator can be used in the field. Anyone looking to get into the fashion industry. Prepares readers for the competitive job market by teaching them sought after technical skills and contemporary job search strategies.
Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Illustrator
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Chic Chick
October 16, 2010 at 8:39 pm
This book was waaay overpriced, and hard to follow. For experienced designers who already know Illustrator, there’s no need to have soo much information- it just made things more complicated than they needed to be.
All I needed to know was how to create a seamless pattern & define it as a swatch, and how to manipulate the fabrics when they are rendered in the body. I already know how to sketch, all I was looking for were some quick tips.
Also, the Pantone swatch reference in this book is totally useless…anyone who’s ever printed artwork based on a pantone color knows that printers never print colors the way they look on the screen! They also show you how to create plaids in Illustrator, which is SO not the program to use if you’re seriously working with plaids- the overlapping colors don’t come out right, and you won’t get the texture of the weave. It’s better to do plaids in Photoshop, and then bring them into Illustrator.
I was soo disappointed with this book. If it was like $20 then it’s not so bad, but $72 is ridiculous for such a disorganized, misinforming book. Personally, I found the Designers Nexus Adobe Illustrator Advanced Techniques ebook to have exactly what I needed, plus lots of bonus techniques that helps me get things done faster- and it was 1/3 the price! The downside is that it’s an ebook, so if you want to a hard copy, you’d have to print the pages yourself. I also bought the Designers Nexus RGB color library, which gives me accurate color matched printouts EVERY time!
Rating: 2 / 5
Phyllis Huang
October 16, 2010 at 9:00 pm
I thought this would be more of a tutorial that would help you render fabric details in Illustrator but it turned out to be more of an Illustrator manual. The portion on prints and print repeats might be helpful to a beginner in Illustrator, but I was looking for instruction beyond this.
Rating: 3 / 5
V. Aviles
October 16, 2010 at 11:44 pm
the book is not well organized and for an experience designer not of any usage.
Rating: 3 / 5