The illustrator options dialog box appears when you first choose file save or file save as. After ive selected my image referencesoften those displaying interesting textural elementsand learned all i can about the subject and its habitat, im ready to begin work on a new scratchboard. Scratchboard art technique stepbystep art demonstration. I start by making a detailed drawing on vellum or tracing paper. This is a tutorial to help my students learn how to use scratch board. The pdf file format is easy for most computers to use. The foundation of all these hats is my faith in christ. Scratchboard studies, a dark journey inspired by the concept of void and anguish. The complete beginners guide to adobe illustrator pdf. How to create a scratchboard effect bear portrait graphic design. Across the top of the screen is the menu bar, which contains illustrator s commands and essentials such as printing, saving, copying, and pasting. Illustrator basics and fundamentals adobe illustrator. Illustrator can now take advantage of ram beyond 3 gb.
Adobe illustrator cs3 user guide for windows and macintosh. Scratchboard illustration of a horse, tutorial youtube. Well start with a general look at illustrator and then go into more detail about each part. Post a picture of your value scale stippling, cross hatching, and parallel. This dialog box offers other options when saving an illustrator document. For a video on tracing, see image trace in illustrator cs6 on adobe tv. Adobe illustrator can be a little tricky to get your head around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of applications such as photoshop. Scratchboard illustration for wigwag magazine by bill russell. The adobe mercury performance system is a combination of solutions that makes illustrator faster, more responsive, and able to handle larger files. As we set illustrators preferences to our tastes, we will be creating our own little.
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Choosing file save as and choosing adobe pdf saves as a file that can be shared, opened by free pdf readers, and posted online. Jul 8, 2015 todays tutorial is aimed at those who are beginners with adobe illustrator cs and later versions and who also have access to a graphics tablet. Open the folder called templatesincluded with the pdf version of this book. On the tutorial it says that you can obtain the same result using filters sketch halftone pattern but i cant find it on my version of photoshop cc. When i started out doing scratchboard, somewhere around 1992, there was very little information available on it. The illustrator window first, lets take a tour of the illustrator window. An introductory tutorial about the graphic editing program known as adobe illustrator. Discover how american illustrator and digital artist tracie ching creates graphic portraits with elaborate crosshatching effects, and how she. Makes general processing faster on 64bit macintosh and windows operating systems.