HOW TO USE ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR MAC
HOW TO USE ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR PLUS
Rick Hiltbrunner hadn’t touched the colors yet.Īfter suffering through 60 plus pages in Photoshop on a beige Mac G3, I had enough. Words by Kevin Church and art by Max Riffner. If you are willing to experiment, give it a try! And reach out to me if you need help. It’s just the tool I keep coming back to. Every time I’ve explained that I create comics in Adobe Illustrator, other cartoonists are flabbergasted. When I came to the Center for Cartoon Studies, I picked up a brush for the first time since my earliest attempts and I was suddenly very good at it. I created comics in Adobe Illustrator for over a decade. It was like watching a little kid try to ride a bike and just falling time and time again.
I couldn’t use a brush to save my life, even after hours of practice. I was a horrible inker, even on my own stuff.
I could do it all in Illustrator.Īnother benefit at that time were multiple Undo’s. Less files (remember, there was an art file and a lettering file). But I started to notice a difference in vector file sizes. Digital workflows were just coming into vogue, and of course everyone who was drawing comics digitally used Photoshop. In the year 2000, digital storage was expensive. I spent an arm and a leg on a 3gb hard drive. But first, I think the I need to answer an important question: Why would you create comics in Adobe Illustrator? Probably because it had something useful in it. It was one of my more popular posts from my previous site. I originally wrote about my process of how I create comics in Adobe Illustrator in November of 2005. Create comics in Adobe Illustrator? Yes, it can be done.