Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adobe Creative Cloud, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2. Drawing Expressive Lines

The Exercises in this chapter encourage you to study lines as design elements. Specifically, you’ll examine the lines found in a landscape photograph of trees. As you can see in FIGURE 2.1, the dark lines produced by the bark of the trees are read in stark contrast against a winter sky. You’ll use the Pencil and Paintbrush tools and explore the Gradient and Layers panels in Adobe Illustrator.

Figure 2.1 The original photograph used for the study in lines in Chapter 2’s exercises was created by Aleš Jungmann. ...