From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

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Creating brush pen line work

Creating brush pen line work

- [Von] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. Authentic ink line work in Adobe Illustrator is best achieved using a Wacom tablet and a pen, since that is required to gain access to its pressure-sensitive functionality, but if you don't have a Wacom, there's still ways to pull off an authentic look and feel by using some custom brushes with a mouse-based workflow, so let me show you how that's done because not everybody has access to a Wacom tablet. Now, before we start using brushes, we have to know how to create a brush, so I'm going to show you really quickly how to create an Art Brush and it can be done simply using the Blob Brush tool. So, here's the base art on a brush I'm creating here. It's kind of running at an angle, so I'm going to improve this by just aligning it better by rotating it. And if you ever wondered how to fix this bounding box on an object, just go to Object, Transform, Reset Bounding Box, and boom, it's back to normal. On a brush like this, if you want…

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