From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero

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Drawing with the Pen and Brush tools

Drawing with the Pen and Brush tools

From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero

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Drawing with the Pen and Brush tools

In this movie, we'll add the seams around the elements of clothing, including the gloves and the trunks and the boots, using a combination of the pen and brush tools. I'll go ahead and switch over to my blue colored image here, and I'll zoom on in as well, of course by pressing control plus or Cmd plus on the Mac. Now you could just set in painting the seams if you want to, but you're going to get more predictable results if you 1st draw some path outlines using the pen tool. I'm going to switch over to the paths panel, and then I'm going to drop down to the bottom of the panel and Alt+Click or Option+Click on the little page icon in order to not only create a new path, but name it as well. And I'll go ahead and call it seam lines, and then I'll click okay. Now, you want to select the pen tool, which you can also get by pressing the P key. And make sure, over here in the far left side of the options bar, that path is selected as opposed to shape. With path active, you want to go ahead…

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