Photoshop CS & Painter 8 Commercial Illustration Design

Author: Haiyang Publishing House
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book is a commercial illustration course textbook for digital art design majors. Based on the teaching syllabus, it comprehensively and systematically introduces the fundamental theories, creative principles, and practical techniques of commercial illustration through numerous typical successful commercial illustration cases. It is a summary of the author's years of experience in illustration, cartoon strip creation, and other art design and teaching work. The book is divided into 8 chapters. Chapters 1–3 mainly cover the basic knowledge of illustration, the equipment and tools commonly used in digital illustration, and the general workflow of digital illustration in professional institutions. Chapters 4–8 teach the general principles and common techniques for creating digital commercial illustrations using Photoshop CS and Painter 8 through rich examples, including line processing in digital illustration, drawing black-and-white digital illustrations, creating halftones for illustrations, sketching characters, and achieving special effects such as pastel, spray paint, oil pastel, watercolor, and vector graphics in illustrations. The book has clear teaching objectives, a well-structured teaching arrangement, abundant teaching resources, vivid and practical illustrations, and is easy to understand. It closely combines fundamental knowledge with classroom training, offering hands-on exercises alongside explanations. The steps are detailed, with summaries and exercises at the end of each chapter. Learning is effortless and easy to grasp, greatly benefiting readers in stimulating their learning interest and hands-on desire, broadening their horizons, inspiring creativity, and encouraging innovation.
Applicability: Textbook for commercial illustration courses in digital art design programs across various universities in China; a practical self-study guide for graphic advertising design professionals and who wish to quickly enter the commercial illustration field.