From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Introducing the Eraser tool

Introducing the Eraser tool - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Introducing the Eraser tool

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll begin filling in our artwork with color, and I'll show you how roughly and quickly you can do it thanks to our ability to refine the results after the fact, using the Eraser Tool. Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch over to my artwork so far, and I'll select the Blob Brush Tool. And then I'll go up to the Stroke option, the 2nd color swatch up here in the control panel, and I'll change it to the slight shade of orange, R=251, G=176, B=59. Alright, now I'll press the Escape key in order to hide that panel, and I could just start painting with my tiny little brush here, which is great for the outlines, but it's not so great for painting in large areas of color, which is why it's so great that you can modify the size of your brush on the fly using the square bracket keys, that are just to the right of the P as in Paul key on an American keyboard. If you want to increase the size of your brush, you can press the ] Key, if you want to increase its size…

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