From the course: Introducing Illustrator
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Painting with the Blob Brush - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Illustrator
Painting with the Blob Brush
- [Instructor] All right, now we're going to move from the pencil tool to the other outstanding freehand drawing tool in Illustrator, and that, believe it or not, is this guy right here, the blob brush. But despite its goofy name, it is a really great tool. And so I'll go ahead and select it. And then, just for the sake of demonstration here, I'm going to kind of scribble back and forth and you can see that I've got some pretty choppy lines. But as soon as I release, Illustrator smooths things out dramatically. Alright, I'm going to go ahead and switch to the black arrow selection tool, up there at the top of the tool box. And I'll click on this guy in order to select it like so. And then, I'll zoom in by pressing control plus or command plus on the Mac. And I want you to see the big difference here, which is going to be even more obvious if I switch back to the blob brush. Instead of painting stroked path outlines, I'm…
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