From the course: Illustrator: Using Wacom Tablets
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Drawing with the Blob Brush
From the course: Illustrator: Using Wacom Tablets
Drawing with the Blob Brush
- So here we are inside of the Steampunk file from our exercise files. What I'm going to do is I'm going to add some more accents to her costume in the middle of her outfit. To do this, I'm gonna use a new tool inside of Adobe Illustrator called the Blob Brush. Not only does it have a fun name, but it's really a great tool because it creates shapes instead of standard brush strokes. First we need to set this up. You'll find the Blob Brush underneath the Paintbrush Tool, or Shift B is the keyboard shortcut. Double click on the tool to access the Blob Brush Options. What we're going to do is we're going to keep it selected so that we can add to it as we're going along. And then down below on our Brush Options we can add some Wacom specific settings. For the size, I'm going to go through and make this pressure sensitive. Now remember, the variations only going to go up to the maximum size of my brush. So I have a six point brush right now and a six point Variation. I can change this out…
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