Adobe for Footwear Bootcamp

Learn how to use both Illustrator and Photoshop to sketch and create realistic renderings of your shoe designs. We will be covering sketching tips, filling your sketches with textures and finally adding the little shadow and highlight details that will make your sketches look real.

Everyone who attends will receive a handy shortcuts cheat sheet and free textures that will help your shoe (fashion and accessories) sketches look more realistic.

Topics covered:

• Advanced Illustrator sketching tips - Learn lots of time saving tricks with the Pen tool, Pencil and other tools that will speed up your sketching. Also covered are various sketching techniques used to create the closed shapes needed for proper sketching.
• Pattern Brushes - Learn how to create
• Pattern Brushes that will produce more realisitc stitches. -
• Seamless patterns in Photoshop - Learn how to use Photoshop to create simple seamless repeats for your texture patterns. Whether you scan in your own textures or find textures online that arent in repeat this is a helpful tip to create good looking textures.
• Filling flats - There are several helpful tips for filling flats in Illustrator and we will be covering the Magic Wand, Isolation Mode, Live Color, Appearance Panel and more.
• Blending modes - Blending modes are key to creating the textures, highlights and shadows needed to make your sketches look more realistic in both Illustrator and Photoshop. We will cover the ones you are going to use the most.
• Gradients and Gradient Mesh -Gradient and Gradient mesh tools are great for creating highlights and shadows in your sketches. We will make sure you know how to harness the power of the dreaded Gradient Mesh tool.
• Illustrator Effects - There are several Illustrator effects we will cover to enhance our sketches including: drop shadows, glows, blurs, and even texturizer.
• Photoshop final touches - Finally we will enter Photoshop and complete our sketching with airbrush touchups, layer effects and more.

Intermediate knowledge of Illustrator Sketching and Photoshop is highly recommended for this advanced class