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Drawing with the Eraser tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
Drawing with the Eraser tool
- [Instructor] Perhaps a surprise drawing tool from the set in this chapter is the eraser tool. Now quite true, it does erase as it's supposed to, but it's also quite a capable drawing tool. You can see here that I've got just a straight, black rectangle on this art board. I can just go ahead and draw on here with the eraser tool. Okay, and carve away from that shape. I could make some really interesting things by taking away things as a negative. Now there is an advantage here to using something like a Wacom tablet, because if you double-click on the tool, you can see how it's possible to modify the angle. So if you wanted something that was more calligraphic you could change the angle and the roundness the next control down. And additionally, the size in all of these can be changed to respond to any of these inputs. On mine, I've got mine set to change with pressure and a variation of eight points. So if I go…
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