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ILLLUSTRATOR CS2 GONE WILD!

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Covering the latest release of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator Gone Wild features over 50 eye-popping illustration effects, with enough detail so that readers with familiarity with Adobe CS can step-by-step recreate the techniques in the book.

Readers learn to create beautiful and complex DNA-like strands of materials, Escher-like patterns, spectacular car body effects, warped-out buildings, surreal complex shadowing, jewels with semi-transparent layers, liquid type, and much more.

Illustrator Gone Wild combines technical detail and aesthetic quality with insights, behind the scenes tricks, and war stories from the world of cutting edge professional graphic design.

David Karlins is one of the most widely published authors on Illustrator and vector graphic design. For more candid insights into the "Making of Illustrator Gone Wild" see my Blog.

Bruce K. Hopkins, was the fabric pattern designer for Joe Boxer shorts during their heyday, creating dozens of highly recognizable designs.

Bruce's spectacular Space poster series and other fine art has been featured in books and galleries.

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Note to readers: The owners of the copyrights on these photos have been cool enough to give permission for their use by readers of Illustrator Gone Wild for non-commercial purposes only.

DucatiEngine.jpg, Platte-Carree.jpg, Shanghai.jpg, Serge Timacheff's Chevy... (more coming)

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How to Do Everything with Adobe Illustrator CS by David Karlins

In this very attractive presentation, David Karlins, who teaches interactive design at the University of California and at San Francisco State, deconstructs Illustrator to show how it allows such things as blend options, mask edits, rasterize, tweak blends, and create unusual type alignments. At the end of the book, there are 25 pages of exciting illustrations from professional designers, including a dynamite CD cover and a great architectural cutaway. This is not high art, but it is great graphic design. If layout and illustration are your thing, this is absolutely your book.
- Andrew Allentuck, Toronto Globe and Mail

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Illustrator Videos by David Karlins: Pen Tool, Shaping Type | Effects, Filters | and Gradient Meshes

Drop in on an Illustrator professional!

Ever wonder what a full-time Illustrator artist does to pay the bills?

There aren't many who can just do Illustrator work for years and years. But I know a guy who's been pulling it off...

Bruce Hopkins has been doin' it all with Illustrator since the days when guys and gals wore Joe Boxer shorts.Literally! (On the right: from Bruce's Space series) =>