Fashion Designer's Handbook for Adobe Illustrator, 2nd Edition

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii

QUICK REFERENCE TOOLS PANELS viii – ix

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR – QUICK REFERENCE TOOLS PANEL x

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP – QUICK REFERENCE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS xi

CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS.

Vector and bitmap images 2

Colour modes 3

Open Illustrator, create and save a new fi le 4

Customise the work area 5 – 6

Workspace 7 – 8

Tools panel 9

Tools 10 – 26

A simple exercise 27 – 30

Type tool 31 – 32

Add or change artboards 33

Summary 34

CHAPTER 2: FIRST GARMENT.

Create a new fi le – scan and place an image 36

Trace and expand the image of child croquis 37

Create a new layer 38 – 39

Drawing a dress 40 – 51

Completed dress, create alternate style 52 – 60

New layer and colour change 61

Measuring lines with arrows 62

Prepare fi le for export to JPEG format 63 – 64

Summary 65

Croquis: Child 66

CHAPTER 3: TECHNICAL DRAWING.

Creating silhouettes – female youth croquis 68

Creating a library of basic garment shapes 69

Creating a basic tee and neckband 70

Swatches panel and stripe pattern swatch 71

Scaling and rotating the stripe pattern fi ll 72

Brushes panel and stripe brush 73 – 74

Offset spot pattern repeat 75 – 76

Troubleshoot pattern fi lls 77

Technical drawing 78 – 86

Pattern brushes 87 – 95

Colorization and expand brushes 96

Save a brush stroke / accessories library 97

Masking 98 – 99

Expanded brush strokes and trims 100

Female and male garment symbols 101

Croquis: Adults 102

Croquis: Youth, baby and toddler 103

Libraries 104

Consistency 105

Summary 106

CHAPTER 4: STORY BOARDS.

Styling 108

Rib top 109 – 114

Jacket 115 – 117

X-over top 118 – 119

Yarn-dyed stripe top 120 – 121

Skirt 122 – 125

Shorts 126 – 127

Dress 128 – 132

Background fl owers 133 – 134

Story board 135

Summary 136

CHAPTER 5:– STORY BOARDS.

Male croquis development 138 – 141

Story board 1 – Digital photograph 142 – 144

Adding effects to an illustration and working with text 144 – 147

Story board 2 – Tee-shirts and placement prints 148 – 150

Downloading fonts and clip art 151

Story board 3 – Denim wash effects and colour change 152 – 156

Story board 4 – Adobe Photoshop 157

Hand draw a fashion illustration 158

Photoshop 159 – 161

Clean a scanned image 162 – 164

Colour fi ll the garments 165

Gradient editor 166 – 168

Colour change of a scanned fabric 169 – 170

Colour sampling and layers in Photoshop 171 – 173

Story board and edit background  photograph 174 – 175

Female croquis development – hand drawing 176

Story board 5 – Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator 177

Adobe Photoshop – cut – out and edit a photograph in Photoshop 178 – 180

Adobe Illustrator – place Photoshop fi le 180 – 181

Technical drawings 183 – 185

Digital photograph editing 186 – 187

Story board 6 – Male croquis development and variations of the poses in Illustrator 188 – 192

Faces 193 – 195

Summary 196

INDEX 198 – 200

Note: some parts of headings and sub-headings may be summarised.