Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Gustavo Del Vechio
Del Vechio placed a photo by John Murphy as a template reference for his Carrot
Tree restaurant illustration. He chose the Perspective Grid tool (which enabled the
visible grid), then used the tool to set the horizon line and adjust each plane to
match the perspective of the photo template. To create each portion of the building
in proper perspective, he first would use the Perspective Selection tool to enable
one plane, then use a variety of Illustrator's vector tools to create most of the objects
for that plane directly on the perspective grid. He repeated this process for each
plane until he had built most of the restaurant on each of the three planes. In a few
cases he created objects with the grid disabled, then—enabling the grid—used the
Perspective Selection tool to select the objects and dragged and dropped them
onto a highlighted plane of the grid. To add variety and texture, he used custom
bristle brushes to paint the sky and the foreground fade. To constrain his brush
strokes to areas such as the lawn, he selected that object and enabled the Draw
Inside mode (see “
Draw Behind and Draw Inside
” in the
Rethinking Construction
chapter for more about this). Finally, he resized the artboard using the Artboard tool
to crop the image to his desired dimensions.
