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KING
Steve King
U-Haul celebrates history and natural science with eye-catching images they call
“Super-Graphics” displayed on their moving vans. Illustrator Steve King mixes
intricate details with simplified shapes in this image of the
H.L. Hunley
, a Civil War
submarine. King relied on the Gradient tool to create lighting effects and simulate
the transparency of a see-through illustration. He employed a darkening orange-to-
blue gradient fill on the submarine from the captain's lantern backward to the
propeller. The Gradient tool gave King the economy of creating a few gradients that
he reused as fills for different objects. To illustrate the faces of four of the seated
sailors, King drew shapes that he filled with the same gradient. He used the
Gradient tool's Annotator to customize the length and angle of each sailor's
gradient, which helped tie them together visually while keeping their shapes
distinct.
