From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
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Drawing with the Paint Brush tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
Drawing with the Paint Brush tool
- Out of all of the drawing tools, this one is the most flexible and useful for drawing inside of Illustrator. Let me show you how you can use the paint brush tool with custom brushes and pressure sensitivity to achieve some nice results. Now, the paint brush tool is great for doing line work, it's great for inking base art. You're going to see that take shape, as we move forward into other movies in this course. And it's great for drawing organic shapes, because of the pressure sensitivity, and for doing detailing, especially in context of using some art brushes. So let's jump into this. If you go to the paint brush tool, it's right there. And if you double-click, you can go into the Tool Options, and once again it has the same Fidelity settings of Accurate and Smooth, and on this one I tend to gravitate towards Accurate. Now, you can go the other way. If you want to make it just a subtle smoothness to it, that's fine as well. And it has a few other options. Fill new brush strokes…
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