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The best tools for painting

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The best tools for painting

- Right now, right this minute, it's tough to be an Illustrator trainer. Why? Because the subject of this chapter is one of the best tools in the entire software. And it's officially called the Blob brush. Yes, you heard me correctly. Blob brush. Which if I were you, would suggest some kind of brush tool that paints blobs. And why not, right? Who, these days, doesn't want to paint a whole bunch of plump, gooey blobs? Really just blob the heck out of things. Who wouldn't want to do that? Oh, that's right, everyone. And yet, the truth is, the Blob brush is an amazing tool. As with the Pencil, the topic of the last chapter, the Blob brush has grown more capable in recent years so that it produces exceedingly smooth and yet remarkably accurate results. Only unlike the Pencil, the Blob brush paints closed path outlines instead of open ones. Better still, if you don't like what you see you can whittle at those closed path outlines with the Eraser tool. So, a bit of blobbing, a bit of…

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