From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
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The Pencil tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
The Pencil tool
- [Instructor] If you want to draw freehand in Illustrator, you can. There are two tools that you can use to draw freehand. The Pencil tool and the Brush tool. However, the Brush tool works the same way, pretty much, as the Pencil tool, but it just applies a brush stroke to it. And to be honest, you could do exactly the same thing with the Pencil tool most of the time and then apply a brush stroke, afterwards. So it's up to you how you work. It's not a paintbrush in the same way that it is in Photoshop, for example. So let's have a look at the Pencil tool, here. If you tap N on your keyboard, that's N for November, you will get the Pencil tool. And we're going to go over to the toolbox and double-click on it to access it's options. Firstly, there's a slider that determines how accurately it follows what you're doing, or really, how much smoothing is applied. I'm going to just move this over so it's slightly more…
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