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For courses in Fashion Illustration, Fashion Drawing and Figure Drawing. More than just a how to manual, Adobe Illustrator for Fashion Design introduces readers to the Illustrator approach to design and ways to think about designing fashion apparel and textiles using the program. Early chapters provide a strong foundation in the commands and capabilities of the program while later sections offer application exercises that develop skills in fashion drawing, textile design and presentation techniques. Available with an accompanying DVD, this book emphasizes the creative process and explores the capabilities of this powerful program as related to drawings of clothing, fashion poses, and textile prints. Salient Features Thorough overview of Adobe Illustrator-and its applications to fashion illustration. Provides a solid foundation of Illustrator-from the basic illustrator design approach to its Toolbox, Menus, and Palettes.  Four types of application exercises include: Basic Drawing Exercises-teach a basic skill that is commonly used in design such as fills, strokes, drawing basics, using the grid, using layers etc. Fashion Drawing Exercises-reinforcehow to utilize the illustrator tools to draw flats, develop and draw a fashion croquis, create a posed fashion figure from a photo and more! Textile Design Exercises-address how to work with built-in patterns, how to create a pattern tile, building multiple colorways for a textile print and more! Presentation Techniques-involve using filters and/or effects to create fabric swatch templates, creating fabric swatch templates, creating a merchandise presentation using snapshots etc.  A DVD accompanies the text-and includes files used in the exercises and additional files for viewing. Offers supporting files that are clearly organized in folders and labeled to correlate with specific chapters in this book. Margin Notes, Tips and Comments-appear in the side-bar. Provide additional information on the capabilities, menus and commands of Adobe Illustrator.