From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
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Scott Soeder - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
Scott Soeder
- [Narrator] In this movie, I'm showcasing the digitally drawn artwork of Scott Soeder, an illustrator based out of Kentucky. Now when he starts a project, in this case an illustration of a rhino character playing drums, he sketched this out in analog, meaning outside the box, outside the computer, scanned it in, brought it in to Illustrator, and now he's going to use the drawing methods and tools within Illustrator to ink out his line work for this illustration. So I'm going to go ahead and turn on that layer, and you can see here how he's digitally inked it out. So if I select one of these paths here, we'll go over to the brushes palette, and you can see he's using this nib right here. If we double-click into this, you can see what his settings are. He's using a five point. Once again, these two numbers will almost always match. I've tried it variations of this, where the numbers aren't matched, and I don't really see any difference, so it seems to be a universal. Every artist I've…
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