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Any good tutorials on the net for learning to illustrate
Hiya everyone,
just been looking through istockphoto at some of the illustrations for motorcycle themed clothing. They’re really quite expensive for the limited production runs we’re contemplating, as I’m highly confident at tracing images by hand in CorelDraw and have a very good grasp of photoshop for re-touching images/adding effects etc… it’s about time I learned to illustrate.
Really looking to create stuff like this: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illust … ersion.php
I’m guessing for stuff like the motorcycle, it’d be a case of tracing an image to get it accurate/tidy, then applying creating individual objects over a range of layers to build the image up to a finished illustration.
Are there any decent tutorials on the net? Is it a far more involved and laborious process than ‘hand tracing’ in CorelDraw?
All tips/links/advice is greatly appreciated 🙂
ta muchly 🙂
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Do you mean learning to use Adobe Illustrator or to be an illustrator? The latter would be a natural talent and a 2 year degree course. :lol1:
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lol, think the degree course may have to wait as I’ve got far too much work on at the moment with the business and a part time degree in business management 😛
Just learning to use Illustrator really I guess – been using CorelDraw since version 4 when I was a kid, and it has served me well into my working life. I only learned to use photoshop around 4 years ago – I found it very clunky and irritating to use while I learned what all the different layers and dialogues did… Now I understand the language which photoshop speaks I can fly through it.
I get the feeling it’s going to be a similar learning curve (or path, geddit?) with illustrator.
I learned photoshop through car modification tutorials – tinting windows, respraying, changing alloys wheels, chopping and changing body panels/body kits etc… The methods used to do that sort of stuff have carried across alsorts of work ever since – so I guess its a case of finding tutorials which I can really get my teeth into to help me really absorb the methods for creating striking illustrations.
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I would say anything you can do in Illustrator can be done in Corel. You get many a debate on here on which one is best. It is really down to what you know. If you have been using Corel for so long I would learn some new stuff in Corel as you have the basics. I prefer Corel as I am used to it. I keep trying Illustrator but always go back to what I know. It’s a time thing really.
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Alan (Corel Guru) Drury 😀 may chip in with some tutorial sites, one is lynda.com (I think)
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fair play, I do personally prefer coreldraw and I only ever really use illustrator to open .AI files and then export them to EPS so I can work in corel.
It just seems that as adobe has so many more tutorials on the internet with ‘hobby artists’ using it to create little bits of art which they then stick on deviantART for example.
I’ve just come across this whilst googling. It has some basic tutorials which draw on some of the not-so-obvious tools required to make shapes & colour renders etc. http://www.vectordiary.com/tutorials/
I’ll have a play around and report back 🙂
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There’s a fair few here Paul…..not sure if there is exactly what you are looking for but it might give you some ideas…
http://coreldrawtips.com/site/coreldraw-x3-tutorials
this is just page 1 of 8
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Have a look at layersmagazine.com – lotsa tutes there.
I think the new illy cs5 far superseed corel, but for basic signmaking corel can do alot.this is nice ;o)
http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/photorealistic-vector-car-tutorial
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