{"id":15810,"date":"2009-04-27T07:35:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T07:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/04\/monday-illustration-tips-tutorials.html"},"modified":"2009-04-27T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T07:35:39","slug":"monday_illustration_tips_tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/monday_illustration_tips_tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday illustration tips, tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Scott Hansen has created a tutorial (with source files) demoing the techniques used to create a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.iso50.com\/2009\/01\/27\/iso50-design-tutorial-1\/\">Dylan poster homage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Heh&#8211;I had no idea that it&#8217;s possible to designate a &#8220;key object&#8221; in Illustrator &amp; align objects to it.  Check out Terry Hemphill&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/infiniteresolution\/2009\/03\/post.html\">quick tip<\/a> to learn more.<\/li>\n<li>The Chopping Block does symmetry with these <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.choppingblock.com\/2009\/03\/illustrator-cs3-cs4-reflection-templates\/\">Illustrator reflection templates<\/a>.  (Illustrator&#8217;s combo of live effects + the ability to target anything from individual paths to groups to layers is enormously powerful&#8211;and woefully underused.  The Appearance panel in CS4 makes things much easier, but I find that many artists just won&#8217;t make the cognitive leaps necessary to harness this power.)<\/li>\n<li>PSDTUTS shows how to <a href=\"http:\/\/psd.tutsplus.com\/articles\/news\/how-to-illustrate-type-using-cinema-4d-and-photoshop-psd-plus-tutorial\/\">create insectoid 3D text<\/a> using Photoshop + Cinema 4D.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Hansen has created a tutorial (with source files) demoing the techniques used to create a Dylan poster homage. Heh&#8211;I had no idea that it&#8217;s possible to designate a &#8220;key object&#8221; in Illustrator &amp; align objects to it. Check out Terry Hemphill&#8217;s quick tip to learn more. The Chopping Block does symmetry with these Illustrator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}