From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

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Hand drawn with the Blob Brush

Hand drawn with the Blob Brush

From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

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Hand drawn with the Blob Brush

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at using the pencil and the blob brush for hand lettered type. I'll start with the pencil. Anything that you create with the pencil is going to be monoline. There'll be no calligraphic quality to it. You'll want to make sure that you are, in this scenario, working with no fill and a stroke only. Otherwise you'll get filled shapes. And you have a smoothing setting. I'm going to have that at seven. This is on a scale of zero to 10. And then I'll just create my letter shapes. At this point, to give this a bit more character, I can come to Properties and increase the stroke weight. If I want to, I can select individual letters and just move them or rotate them. I can use my direct selection tool to come and work on the anchor points. And I can also, on the object panel, convert my stroke outline to fills. I'll select that, deselect, and then reselect, and you can see that we now have…

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