Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 255 pages
- Published by: Wiley October 31, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0764598597
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764598593
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Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Book Description
Hang on tight Illustrator is about to blow you away. In fact, using the advanced techniques in this book, you could transform a photo of yourself to look as if that was literally happening. Achieve over-the-top visuals including type on a 3D spiral, exaggerated dot patterns that create comic book characters inspired by Roy Lichtenstein, Escher-esque shapes in simulated 3D, hip-hop type, amazing animation,effects that would make Andy Warhol proud—more than fifty in all, and each one described step by step and illustrated in breathtaking color. Build upon what you already know about Illustrator to:
- See how exotic effects can be modified and applied in various situations
- Learn to map artwork onto 3D illustrations, a process that can be used in architectural renderings or newsletters
- Discover Illustrator's almost limitless fill options and ways to use them
- Create liquid type, a wide variety of photographic effects, and fantasy automotive detailing
- Render complex illustrations from traced photographs using Live Paint
Back Cover Copy
Hang on tight Illustrator is about to blow you awayIn fact, using the techniques in this book, you could transform a photo of yourself to look as if that was literally happening. Achieve over-the-top visuals including type on a 3D spiral, exaggerated dot patterns that create comic book characters inspired by Roy Lichtenstein, Escher-esque shapes in simulated 3D, hip-hop type, amazing animation,effects that would make Andy Warhol proud-more than fifty in all, and each one described step by step and illustrated in breathtaking color. Wild!
- See how exotic effects can be modified and applied in various situations
- Learn to map artwork onto 3D illustrations, a process that can be used in architectural renderings or newsletters
- Discover Illustrator's almost limitless fill options and ways to use them
- Create liquid type, a wide variety of photographic effects, and fantasy automotive detailing
- Render complex illustrations from traced photographs using Live Paint
Reader Reviews
I really hate to pan a book because I have a lot of respect for the effort that goes into writing one but do yourself a favor and skip this one. I purchased it based on the rave reviews below and then when I recieved it I knew immediatly that I had to return it. Illustrator Gone Wild is a sophmoric effort. At best it's worth flipping through while in the book store but it's not worth taking home. If you've bothered to learn Illustrator from a class or a good book, such as Adobe's Classroom in a book series, then you all ready have the skills and knowledge to do everything in the book such as the chapter on making Kiss type. (Which I doubt you'll ever be called upon to do) But if you want to learn something about the details of making clean professional or even attractive art then you'll find this book lacking, as I did. The key thing that interested me in the book was the promised chapter on photo-realism and the review that said this book was like the WoW series only more project oriented. The details on photo-realism were so scant that one could pick up all this book had to say in thirty minutes of trying to trace and color a shiny metal object. This book's similarity to the WoW series ends at being a book with chapters, words and pictures. While it does offer more detail in steps to create art than WoW the projects it offers are the kind of thing you'd do on a Sunday afternoon for fun or for a friend's band who can't afford to pay you but not the kind of thing you'd show at work, in a portfolio or try to sell freelance.
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