UPDATE January 28th 2008: Illustrator CS version “Leaves and flowers symbols” available for download! Yet another addition to Illustrator freebies section :)
For today I wanted to create a Photoshop custom shape. So, I drew some flowers and leaves in Illustrator… Big mistake.
If you want to create Photoshop custom shape, you have to do it in Photoshop using path tool. Oh, yes. I didn’t draw custom shapes in Photoshop for a long time – so I forgot about this little step. Of course, you can use Magic tool and then create path from the selection… but the results will be awful.
So, instead of Photoshop custom shape for today I offer Adobe Illustrator symbols for download, and the correct path where it should be saved is: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS3\Presets\Symbols
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Wrapping scrolls around illustrations or images are quite popular designers little trick these days. I’ll show you how to draw a scroll “easy way”.
Step 1
Assuming that you know how the scroll (banner) looks like, draw just one half of it (start left or right from the center). I am using the Wacom tablet and usually I use the “Pen tool”, but I think that drawing with the “Path tool” is easier for those of you who use a mouse.
And now:
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Step 2
You can modify the shape as you wish, just keep in mind that you have to draw a folded part on the side.
Step 3
Now draw the folded part, which will “fly on the wind”.
Step 4
The folded part of the banner must be placed just bellow the main part, now you have to follow the path between the main part and the folded part and draw another folded part between them.
Step 5
That connection should look like this:
Step 6
Now copy+paste these three parts, and mirror them horizontally. Join middle anchors and the banner is finished. Color them as you wish. Add some cracks and you’ll get the “old-world” style.
I’m using banners (scrolls) in my “emblem” designs
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Let me show you how I created a simple web shop icon (shop trolley). In Illustrator (or similar vector software) make a simplified shop trolley “L” shape (the handle + basis).
Now, we will select the basis line and copy it two more times to get something similar to E shape where the left vertical line end up above the top horizontal line.
Draw one vertical line that will close the shape.
As for the wheels, create two circles below the basis of the trolley. Make one ellipse and then a second one, smaller in the middle of the first one.(Do that using Ellipse tool). Select both ellipses, and subtract them with “Pathfinder -> Subtract from shape area” option. There is our wheel :)
Copy that wheel and position them under the basis.
Now for the background circle follow the same procedure as for the wheels. One small difference is that holding ALT+TAB will make this ellipse a perfect circle. Color it, place it behind the trolley and – voila!
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Simple, innit?
Let me know if you need any help.
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A few words about history of illustration.
Illustrations can be used to display a wide range of subject matter and serve a variety of functions like:
- 1. giving faces to characters in a story
- 2. displaying a number of examples of an item described in an academic textbook
- 3. visualizing step-wise sets of instructions in a technical manual
- 4. communicating subtle thematic tone in a narrative
- 5. linking brands to the ideas of human expression, individuality and creativity
- 6. inspiring the viewer to feel emotion in such a way as to expand on the linguistic aspects of the narrative
Early history
The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric cave paintings. Before the invention of the printing press, illuminated manuscripts were hand-illustrated.
15th century through 18th century
During the 15th century, books illustrated with woodcut illustrations became available. The main processes used for reproduction of illustrations during the 16th and 17th centuries were engraving and etching. At the end of the 18th century, lithography allowed even better illustrations to be reproduced. The most notable illustrator of this epoch was William Blake who rendered his illustrations in the medium of relief etching.
Early to mid 19th century
In the early 19th century the proliferation of popular journals, which often serialised novels for mass-circulation, produced a boom in popular illustration. The medium moved away from steel engraving which was the standard in the early century towards wood-engraving which could more easily be incorporated into pages of text. Book and journal publishers would employ workshops of wood-engravers to render artists’ drawings onto polished blocks of fine-grained yew or box-wood which could then be locked directly into the printing-chase with the metal type. Notable figures of the early century were John Leech, George Cruikshank, Dickens’ illustrator Hablot K. Browne and, in France, Honoré Daumier. The same illustrators would contribute to satirical and straight-fiction magazines, but in both cases the demand was for character-drawing which encapsulated or caricatured social types and classes.
The British humorous magazine Punch, which was founded in 1841 riding on the earlier success of Cruikshank’s Comic Almanac (1827-1840), employed an uninterrupted run of high-quality comic illustrators, including Sir John Tenniel, the Dalziel Brothers and Georges du Maurier, into the 20th century. It chronicles the gradual shift in popular illustration from reliance on caricature to sophisticated topical observation. These artists all trained as conventional fine-artists, but achieved their reputations primarily as illustrators. Punch and similar magazines such as the Parisian Le Voleur realised that good illustrations sold as many copies as written content.
Source: wikipedia.org, answers.com
Illustration: The Aberdeen Bestiary (12th century).
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This is the first post in my blog which will, eventually, become one of the most popular blogs on graphics and illustrations in a time to come.
It’s a hard work and I have a long way to go, but I intend to make it so useful, that you will just love it. (If you are in any way in graphics/design/photography business).
OK. Now, where do we start … just like in old-fashioned books on theory of something let’s see what wikipedia has to say on the definition of graphics and illustration.
graph·ic (gr?f’?k)
adj. also graph·i·cal (-?-k?l)
- 1. Of or relating to written representation.
b) Of or relating to pictorial representation.
c) Of, relating to, or represented by or as if by a graph. - 2. Described in vivid detail.
- 2. Clearly outlined or set forth.
- 4. Of or relating to the graphic arts.
- 5. Of or relating to graphics.
- 6. Geology. Having crystals resembling printed characters.
n.
- 1. A work of graphic art.
- 2. A pictorial device used for illustration, as in a lecture.
- 3. A graphic display generated by a computer or an imaging device.
A visual representation such as a photo, illustration or diagram. A graphic may contain text, but text by itself is not considered a graphic unless it is done in a stylized fashion. In the computer, a graphic is a file such as a JPEG or GIF.
il·lus·tra·tion (?l’?-str?’sh?n)
n.
- 1. The act of clarifying or explaining.
- 2. The state of being clarified or explained.
- 3. Material used to clarify or explain.
- 4. Visual matter used to clarify or decorate a text.
- 5. Obsolete. Illumination.
Visual element in an advertisement. The illustration is an efficient way to represent an idea and works in concert with the headline to attract the reader to the advertisement. It is the illustration that helps to make the copy believable.
Graphics
are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other images. Graphics often combine text, illustration, and color. Graphic design may consist of the deliberate selection, creation, or arrangement of typography alone, as in a brochure, flier, poster, web site, or book without any other element. Clarity or effective communication may be the objective, association with other cultural elements may be sought, or merely, the creation of a distinctive style.
Graphics can be functional or artistic. Graphics can be imaginary or represent something in the real world. The latter can be a recorded version, such as a photograph, or an interpretation by a scientist to highlight essential features, or an artist, in which case the distinction with imaginary graphics may become blurred.
An Illustration
is a visualization such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate a story, poem or piece of textual information (such as a newspaper article), traditionally by providing a visual representation of something described in the text.
Source: wikipedia.org, answers.com
Illustration: Marijana Jelic
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