astute graphics plugin crashes illustrator

I attach two examples of illustrations from closed and published projects: the first is done exclusively in Illustrator, the second started off in Illustrator and was finished in Photoshop.

I don't use all of them, but it's convenient to buy the bundle if you like more than a couple. I think the best approach is to use both depending on what type of effect you want to achieve.Īs said, I highly recommend Astute Graphics plugins for Illustrator, as they give you a lot of extra power and efficiency. It is honestly not worth the effort to try and do a painterly look in Illustrator when Photoshop can do that so much more flexibly and efficiently, and it's a pain to do clean vector-like work in Photoshop when Illustrator can do it so much better. I use AI exclusively for certain type of illustration or start in AI and then move to Photoshop for the final touches and brushwork so that I can get rid of Illustrator's 'polished' look. More than 80% of my illustrations start and end in Photoshop, but I do occasionally have a project that lends itself to a mixed approach. Why choose? They both have their strengths and weaknesses, but you can happily move the same illustration from one to the other and take advantage of both. They do gig posters, not narrative illustration, but their vector work is amazing and their classes are some of the best on that platform (in my opinion). If you do decide that vector is the way to go for you, I don’t think SVS has classes for that, I would check out DKNG Studio on Skillshare. This normally isn’t the case in publishing as page sizes are fairly standardized. The only illustrators I know who work in illustrator are ones with a very clean, simple, graphic style or ones who are forced to by corporate clients who want the ability to resize artwork as needed w/o losing resolution.

That just isn’t what the program was made for.

Even with good brushes, I think you will find that illustrator will start to lag and crash if you try to build up enough “brushstrokes” to get a full-page textured illustration. They also have a lot of great examples of vector illustrations using their brush packs right there on the site. If you want artistic strokes in illustrator like you can get in photoshop, you’ll need to get some good brushes.

Astute graphics plugin crashes illustrator