Drawing Vector Graphics: Color and Detail

Add depth, texture, and color to your designs with Adobe Illustrator, and make your illustrations more visually effective.

Introduction

• Adding color and detail to vector graphics

1. Creative Foundation

• Choosing a style
• Drawing your artwork
• Building your vector shapes

2. Lighting

• Establishing light sources
• Drawing your light source
• How light affects color

3. Colors

• Using a color wheel
• Color dimensions: Hue, value, intensity
• How color affects other colors
• Using global colors
• Base colors
• Shadow colors
• Highlight colors and refinement
• Coloring with tonal families
• Using color for emotion
• Shading with cool and warm hues
• Creating with the Recolor tool

4. Detailing Methods

• Using gradients, blend modes, and opacity
• Gradient blend detailing
• Radial gradient lighting effect
• Spot detailing with radial gradients
• Hot spots and deep shadows
• Using offset and outline stroke to detail
• Using custom brushes to detail
• Using rounding techniques to detail
• Using layers and masks to improve detailing
• Using outer and inner glow for detailing
• Creating form with Gaussian blur
• Creating motion and depth with Gaussian blur
• Adding detail using textures
• Colorizing and detailing flat-based artwork
• Using multiple methods to detail artwork

5. Color Resources

• Collecting color
• REUSE: Million-dollar color books

Conclusion

• Goodbye