Documenting The Illustrative Design ProcessCreated by Von. R. Glitschka

Vector Basic Training Book

11.08.10 | Creative Exercises

I’ve been brainstorming this book for well over a year and have been in production mode writing, editing, re-writing, editing more, creating content, and recording screencasts for the past six months. Needless to say a lot of time and energy has been invested in this exhaustive tome that thoroughly takes you through a systematic creative process for building precise vector graphics.

If you like IllustrationClass.com (Over three million of you do) you’ll love this book. I document creative methods that anyone can learn in order to bolster their own creative potential and improve their skills. The book is filled with hundreds of full color images and a wealth of information that will inspire, and equip you for creative success.

The book also comes with a DVD filled with over four hours of screencasts covering the methods documented in the book.

So if you’ve ever struggled creating precise vector graphics in Illustrator, or wanted to improve your process for taking your design from drawing to final vector form than this book is for you. It doesn’t cover ever feature bloat tool Adobe has stuffed into Ai, rather it focuses only on the tools you need to build excellent vector shapes.

For more information about Vector Basic Training and to order visit Amazon.com.

Keywords: VBT, Book, Peachpit, Vector, DVD, Screencast

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  1. kaly wrote: November 10, 2010 at 10:43 am

    quisera aprender illustracio

  2. kaly wrote: November 10, 2010 at 10:43 am

    quiero aprender ilustracio

  3. Danielle wrote: November 11, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    Wow – congratulations on the book! It sounds like EXACTLY the book I’ve been looking for and have never been able to find — I’ve just pre-ordered and cannot wait for it to come out!

  4. Shelle wrote: November 12, 2010 at 11:28 pm

    Congrats, sounds like you put a lot of you into this book!

  5. john wrote: November 17, 2010 at 11:28 am

    I am a high school graphics teacher and I have used your vector art tutorials with my students. The problem I have is the plug in that you use. It costs too much for my school so we do it strictly with Illustrator using the various pathfinder tools. Does or do any of your tutorials explain the problems with solutions to adding, subtracting, intersecting using just Illustrator pathfinder tools?

  6. admin wrote: November 17, 2010 at 11:38 am

    The fundamental principles I go over in the book can be done without the use of plugin’s using just the pen tool, selection tools and some of the point control methods in Ai out of the box, it’ll just take you a lot longer and be more difficult to achieve a precise result.

    When it comes to shape building you can use just the ellipse tool, square tool and Pathfinder to build content that is more iconic and lacks complex bézier curves.

    It’s a little different than working professionals in that you can easily pay for the plugin with one good design job and amount of time you’ll save over the long haul makes it a no-brainer investment. But in context of education that doesn’t really play out since no one in the class is paying a mortgage with the work they are learning to create, so I’d just contact CValley I’m sure they’d work out a deal with you.

  7. aGS wrote: November 20, 2010 at 9:05 am

    Hey Von,
    Excellent! I just added to my “wish list”
    Cheers!
    Arturo.

  8. Aaron wrote: December 2, 2010 at 3:47 pm

    I’ll be buying this- thanks.

  9. JRMN wrote: December 22, 2010 at 9:54 pm

    Is this book paperback or hardback?

  10. admin wrote: January 3, 2011 at 12:38 am

    The book is paperback.

  11. diseased wrote: January 4, 2011 at 4:16 am

    Hey Von,

    Firstly I wanted to tell you that I highly appreciate your work or better your approach on the working procedure.

    I did pre-order the book via amazon as it is easier for me regarding shipment and so on. Unfortunately it seems your book isn’t yet available. (Releasedate 27th Dec 2010 or 22nd Dec 2010)
    Can you give a rough estimation on when the book will be available as I can’t wait any further.

    cheers from austria

  12. admin wrote: January 4, 2011 at 11:36 am

    Vector Basic Training is available now at Amazon: http://goo.gl/P6bvK

    Or from the publishers site: http://goo.gl/rzVNN

    Not sure why you’ve been given those dates?

    Von

  13. Garisimo wrote: January 14, 2011 at 8:57 am

    Excellent resource; great work, Von!

    -g-

  14. Tony wrote: January 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm

    Hi,

    Peachpit says that the ebook is “Available: Jan 21, 2011″

    But it is not possible to buy yet.

    It is only possible to pre-order.

  15. larve4000 wrote: January 25, 2011 at 7:16 am

    yap, bought the ebook in december, still waiting for it :/

  16. dklecan wrote: January 31, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    vonster: I’ve ordered the book, yeah, can’t wait…all your stuff is great. You are so gracious about sharing….it will all come back to your tenfold.
    Question: Is the material in the book same? different? than the PDF materials for $21?

  17. admin wrote: January 31, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    Dklecan,

    The PDF tutorials document individual real world assignments of mine. They cover the entire process from initial directions, sketches, building, art direction, final art etc. It’s like sitting over my shoulder and I talk about each phase.

    The book is a far more complex treatise on how one works out ideas, drawing them, and than building them in vector form. It applies to any type of project needing a precise vector based graphic created and goes into far more detail and elaboration than the tutorials on this site.

    They work well together though. The book comes with over four hours of screencasts too which in and of itself is worth the price of the book. It’s a book you’ll be able to reference back too when you forget stuff too.

    Hope that answers the question.

  18. aGoosmann wrote: March 18, 2011 at 7:10 am

    Just got my book today :-)
    all the best.
    aGS

  19. markkoeks wrote: March 27, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    Hi Von, interested in the Kindle or iBooks edition – does the digi download come with a link to the video instruction/dvd?

    Thanks

  20. vonglitschka wrote: March 27, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    Mark,

    Unfortunately I don’t think it does which doesn’t make any sense to me but that is up to the publisher. You might want to shoot them an email and ask they may have changed that?

    Von

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  23. bybe wrote: March 21, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    Excellent, this will help my website design skills, thanks von.

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