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Drawing with the Eraser tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
Drawing with the Eraser tool
- [Tony] Okay, in this file, I've got two soles of trainer shoes, and I'm going to select both of those. If you now hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, and tap E, you will get the Eraser tool, which is actually, kind of, well not kind of, it definitely is, a brush, but it's a brush that takes things away. Now it has some options and we can discover those options by double-clicking on the tool, which many tools actually have extra properties that you can find by doing that, and you can see here I've got a bunch of options. So the angle it's at. Now if it's a round brush you can put that any way you like, because it really won't matter. It's only when you modulate the roundness will that suddenly become pertinent and you can get sort of calligraphic strokes and so on with it. And the size is what it is, it's whatever size you determine it's going to be. So I'm actually going to just come out of this for a second…
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