Illustrator to draw a book tutorial to share

To the users of the illustrator software to the detailed analysis of sharing a book to draw a tutorial.

Tutorial Sharing:

1. Create new file, A4 size.

You can go to "edit" first? Preferences "?" Unit and display performance ", see" Normal "in the unit is not" MM ", not the words change over. Nothing special, the following tutorial I use is mm.

2. Select the Rectangle tool in the Toolbox, click on the canvas, and set the width 60mm, high 30mm on the Rectangle dialog box.

3. Select the Ellipse tool in the Toolbox, click on the canvas, and set the width 5mm, high 10mm on the Oval dialog box.

4. Press the ALT key to copy the ellipse and move the two ellipses to align the ends of the rectangle respectively.

You can press Shift+f7 to adjust the "alignment" panel.

5. Select the left ellipse and rectangle, and press ALT to click "Add to Shape area" on "Pathfinder" palette.

Press "V" to select the "Select" tool, starting from the top left corner of the graphic to drag and drop the selection of two graphics.

You can press SHIFT+CTRL+F9 to transfer the "Pathfinder" palette.

Press ALT key Click button = Click button + click Expand

Effect:

6. Select the right ellipse and rectangle, and press ALT to click "Subtract from the shape area" on the "Pathfinder" palette.

Effect:

7. Select the graphic, and then open the menu "object"? Path "?" Offset path, select displacement 0.5mm on the offset path palette, and other settings are unchanged.

Do not know why the "offset path" command, the tune out of the "Displacement path" palette, but the total is better than the "fold" on the CD.

8. Select the large graphics outside the expansion, set the fill color to any color you like, the border color is "none."

Select the inner shape and set the fill color to "white" with the border color "none."

9. Select the large graphics outside expansion, the right side of the anchor points up, left, downward move, the purpose is to "hide" up.

Remember to select the single anchor point in the AI by using the "Direct Selection Tool" (Press "A" key) instead of the usual "select tool".

10. On large graphics with external expansion, add three equidistant anchor points with the pen tool, and move the middle point down to make the book crease (the hard book has this).

11. After the outside expansion of the graphic and the interior of the graphic selected, right mouse click, select "Group."

12. According to the book's size design book cover pattern, all selected and dragged to the "symbol" palette, defined as a new symbol.

In a 3D transformation, you can only paste a graph that is defined as a symbol. Symbols can be done in the AI graphics, can also be a bitmap, as far as possible within the 60mmx90mm, preferably not too complex.

The red background of the schematic diagram is to be able to display the white Word, define the symbol, do not choose.

13. Select the 11-Step graphics and select "3D" under the "Effect" menu. Bulge and bevel. " Select "Preview" and set the protrusion thickness to 90mm. [Do not press OK, there are settings behind it]

Projecting the thickness of the unit is PX, do not care about it, the contents are deleted directly after the input "90mm."

Click on the "Map" button to find the cover of the book on the surface (if you do as I say, probably looking for the 13th veneer), select the symbol for the symbol just defined, resize.

If a preview is set on the 3D palette, the selected face is displayed in the form of a red outside when the map is set. Because this figure although is "forget", but the two-tier, there can be felt is the outermost surface, but in fact is the inner layer. So the color difference in the map display area, light gray is shown outside, dark gray is the inner surface.

When the symbol is moved, it will be the same as the graphic preview. If you start to define a 3D graphic that is too complex (many anchor points, the combination of many graphics, or the definition of the symbol is too complex, each move or expand the size of one time, the system has to "think" a few seconds or a few 10 seconds, or even "suspended animation" and "really dead and warped" situation.

Set it up, first "OK" the map, and then "OK" 3D. Effect as shown:

In this way, you can do the book as You like.

Here, I just briefly introduced the way the book is made, you can make the cover of the book according to your own mind, and then paste your work into the forum's special post.

Let's take a look at my effect chart:

Well, the above information is a small series for the users of this software illustrator to the detailed drawing of a book of the full content of the tutorials to share, you see the software users here, small knitting believe that everyone now that is very clear the way to draw the bar, So let's go to the previous tutorial and draw the next book yourself.