This book provides easy to understand, step-by-step instructions and diagrams showing how to use Adobe Illustrator to create flat drawings, working drawings and storyboards for the fashion industry. Hand drawings are no longer good enough for an industry which demands increased productivity, profitability and accuracy. Adobe Illustrator enables the user to create clear and detailed drawings that satisfy the industry's needs. Adobe Illustrator has become the industry standard, taking over from other software packages.

Although Adobe Illustrator is a powerful CAD program, it is difficult to grasp quickly. This book provides the building blocks which enable fashion students and designers to get started quickly while learning the more sophisticated facilities as they become more fluent. Here they are shown simply, concisely and in a highly practical way all that new users need to know to begin to create acceptable work.

Marianne Centner has worked in the fashion industry for over 25 years, both in South Africa and Australia. She has worked exclusively in Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop for a number of years. She runs her own design studio and also trains designers in the fashion industry to use Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop

Frances Vereker has extensive experience teaching fashion drawing and computer drawing to students and teachers. In the course of her work she has liaised with secondary and tertiary colleges throughout Victoria, Australia, giving her the unique opportunity of understanding the process of learning within fashion and textiles. She has lectured at major fashion institutions and has close links with the fashion industry.