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Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Illustrator

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This book was waaay overpriced, and hard to follow. For experienced designers who already know Illustrator, there's no need to have soo much information- it just made things more complicated than they needed to be.
All I needed to know was how to create a seamless pattern & define it as a swatch, and how to manipulate the fabrics when they are rendered in the body. I already know how to sketch, all I was looking for were some quick tips.

Also, the Pantone swatch reference in this book is totally useless...anyone who's ever printed artwork based on a pantone color knows that printers never print colors the way they look on the screen! They also show you how to create plaids in Illustrator, which is SO not the program to use if you're seriously working with plaids- the overlapping colors don't come out right, and you won't get the texture of the weave. It's better to do plaids in Photoshop, and then bring them into Illustrator.

I was soo disappointed with this book. If it was like $20 then it's not so bad, but $72 is ridiculous for such a disorganized, misinforming book. Personally, I found the Designers Nexus Adobe Illustrator Advanced Techniques ebook to have exactly what I needed, plus lots of bonus techniques that helps me get things done faster- and it was 1/3 the price! The downside is that it's an ebook, so if you want to a hard copy, you'd have to print the pages yourself. I also bought the Designers Nexus RGB color library, which gives me accurate color matched printouts EVERY time!

I thought this would be more of a tutorial that would help you render fabric details in Illustrator but it turned out to be more of an Illustrator manual. The portion on prints and print repeats might be helpful to a beginner in Illustrator, but I was looking for instruction beyond this.

the book is not well organized and for an experience designer not of any usage.