From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

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Creating digitally inked art

Creating digitally inked art

actually draw within Illustrator, even though it's possible. This movie was inspired by a question I received, asking me to do a DVG Lab on the topic of digitally drawing artwork in Adobe Illustrator. So with that said, let's get started. hand ink quality, but do it all within Adobe Illustrator, this is going to be our base art. Now, there's a few things I need to point out as we go forward, and that is, in order to draw inside Illustrator, in order to digitally ink inside Illustrator, you're going to need a tablet of some sorts to do that. Now all the methods I'm going to show you, you can technically use a mouse and use the blob brush as you're going to see, along with calligraphic brush, that we're going to create. The only thing you're not going to be able to do is have that pressure sensitivity, that a Wacom Cintiq 13HD as you see here, is going to provide you. Now you can use any Wacom tablet, this is just the one I'm using, just so you know exactly what I'm doing. I actively…

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