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The Brush tool

The Brush tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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The Brush tool

- [Instructor] You may be wondering why I've included the brush tool inside this chapter on appearances, rather than putting it in with the drawing tools earlier in the course. Well, it was a bit of a toss up for me but I think it's actually better here because you don't need to draw with it to actually use it. Now, you can draw, in fact, if I go ahead and select it, and then I'll double click on it in the toolbox, you can see it's got very similar controls to the pencil tool. And if I go ahead and draw, now, I've got a load of different brush strokes here that I can use but I'll just draw one with this like so. Okay, and if I wanted to edit some of that, then I could do that as well if it was selected, okay? So very, very similar in a lot of ways to the pencil tool. However, the reason I've dropped it in here is because brush strokes can be applied to anything and that will change their appearance. Let's pick…

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