Lynda: Technical Illustration: Creating a Cutaway

English | MP4 + Project Files | 1280 x 720 | AVC ~222 kbps | 15 fps

AAC | 128 Kbps | 44.1 KHz | 1 channel | 01h 41min | 840.7 MB

Genre: Video Tutorial

Technical Illustration is for illustrators looking to create artwork that's educational and eye-catching and expand their career prospects in this lucrative field. The guitar illustration featured in this installment combines multiple materials with the right level of complexity, showing you how to create a cutaway that is elegant and accurate. Follow along with artist Brad Neal, as he shows how to research your subject, gather reference material, draw your initial line art, and turn it into an immersive, photorealistic drawing with Illustrator and Photoshop. He'll show how to recreate materials like wood, chrome, wire, and plastic, and create a cutaway drawing that exposes both the inner workings of the instrument and its polished veneer.

Contents:

Introduction

Welcome

What you should know before watching this course

Using the exercise files1. Simplifying the Complex

Understanding technical accuracy

Choosing your style: From line art to lifelike

Researching reference artwork

Planning your illustration2. Getting Started

Reviewing the finished illustration

The initial drawing

Drawing the tuning machine heads and logo

Creating the initial cutaway

3. Detailing in Illustrator

Adding blends and color to the neck and fingerboard

Adding color to the machine heads

Adding strings

Keeping organized: Exporting to Photoshop

4. Detailing and Finishing in Photoshop

Creating the wood grain

Placing the wood-grain cutaway: Part one

Placing the wood-grain cutaway: Part two

Detailing the end grain

Final details: Phantom cuts

Final details: Cleanup

Conclusion

Next steps

Author: Brad Neal

project files are included