Yukio Miyamoto has been using and abusing Adobe Illustrator since the biginning of time (well, since the late '80s at least.). Professional Artist Yukio Miyamoto's artwork is showcased and sample throughout the book.Yukio's artwork has appeared in a number of books, from design books. Yukio has trained thousands of people in all areas of graphics for the Mac and win.

The work is attached to the software of Adobe Illustrator.
Supposing Illustrator of a version higher than Illustrator10 and it is installed in your machine, Please open file.
[Adobe Illustrator 10,CS,CS2 Folder /Sample Files/Sample Art/crystal.ai]
This Illustrator file shown in the left can be seen.

Yukio has published an Adobe Illustrator how-to book "The Adobe Illustrator Super Guide Series" "The Adobe Photoshop Super Guide Series" and "Illustrator PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP" but sadly, it is only available in Japanese at this time.

The opinion about a gradation mesh
A gradation mesh is a tool very convenient to express the shade. However, it has a question in the high-density mesh at the method using plug-in. Although a mesh is required to express the shade which flows smoothly, value cannot be found out to the mode of expression which changed all objects into the mesh. Moreover, I think that there is a problem also about the present mesh specification.

If a get form object is mesh-ized, a mesh can be put in order tidily. Then, the method of making it into the form which transformed the mesh and was considered as the intention does not suit the feeling describing a picture. A user can determine the fundamental flow of a mesh line now to the made object. It became a beta site myself about this affair, and is demanding to Adobe strongly.

Because, positioning of a gradation mesh is a tool near an airbrush for me. When treating an airbrush, before the flow of the shade draws, it should be imagined. The method of repeating modification and controlling a mesh is not suitable. I think that Illustrator is the software describing a picture. I regard as a digital artist learning a lot from an analog.

The method of using plug-in using a high-density mesh, and sampling a color from a template could be called image processing. A copy,Trace and reality are technology required in order to improve the sense describing a picture. In order to show off reality depiction power, Illustrator is not necessarily used. I think it important to employ an expression peculiar to Illustrator as Drawing tools efficiently.