Chapter 5. Digital Illustration
Digital illustration is an exciting medium for creating art on the computer. With just a few strokes and clicks (OK, more than a few), you can create wonderful line art in Illustrator, using your screen as a canvas. No pencil sharpeners required, just a mouse—or a drawing tablet if you get really obsessed.
Digital illustrators use the traditional principles of drawing and painting, using line and shape to represent form, space, and light. But once the work is created, the medium has no limitations. A digital illustration can be easily edited, resized, duplicated, and applied to a whole host of graphic design projects in print or on the Web.
In this chapter, you'll learn some ways to “see” objects as an illustrator, ...
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