Setting Up Your Workspace

Abstract

In this chapter, you will begin to review and set up your workspace in Illustrator beginning in the section “Creating a New Document in Illustrator” where you will start working in Illustrator. The next section is an overview of a workspace that I commonly use when I start creating a new document in Illustrator for a project, but you can later adapt it into your workflow if you need to add more panels later on. Later in Chapter 5, I will also describe how to link your digital mock-up to the artboard so that it will display for tracing over should you need to and then conclude with how to save your Illustrator file and other design considerations.