
I spent over a year to finish all the tutorials in this book. I’m impressed by the organisation and content presented throughout the book – easy-to-digest information, bite-sized tutorials, differentiated themes as well as detailed characterisation of the different genres presented to us in our daily lives. All of these were useful in getting us to become not just familiar with, but also sensitive towards all these different aspects, so as to create relevant and applicable designs that serve their purposes. The last chapter of the book effectively sums up all the short-cuts and application tips that could be used in the software, many of which are new and exciting tricks even for myself.
Here are a few of my favourite self-creations from a handful of tutorials in the book:
1) Line Art

This style employs a photo as its starting point to create a stylised caricature featuring black outlines that trace the basic features and then applying a basic palette of colours to replace the original ones in the photo.
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