This fun, concise, fullcolor book introduces the fundamentals of illustration, and covershow to develop and optimize these types of scalable vector graphics (SVG) usingInkscape or later. It also covers concepts central to paintingusing the Corel Painter 2016 professional painting and illustrationpaid software package, which also has a free trial version, and a discount forpurchasers of this book.

Th builds uponthe foundational concepts of vector graphics and the SVG format, and gets moreadvanced as chapters progress, covering what vector new media formats, and SVGcommands and SVG filters, are best for use with Android Studio, Java 8, JavaFX,iOS, Fire and HTML5. Th covers key factors regarding the datafootprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization isimportant, and covers programming languages used for illustration, andpublishing platforms which support illustration, and how to assimilatethese into your illustration and painting content productionpipelines and workflow.

You will learn:

• The terminology of vector imaging and illustration
• What comprises a illustration 2D modeling and rendering pipeline
• Concepts and principles behind illustration content production
• How to install and utilize 64-bit Inkscape for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
• Concepts behind spline curves, strokes, fills, patterns and rendering
• illustration data formats and data footprint optimization