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Brush and painting tools

Brush and painting tools - Illustrator Tutorial

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Brush and painting tools

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We also have painting tools like the Paintbrush, the Pencil and the Blob Brush tool. So I would like to show these as well to you I'm just going to extend my artboard a bit so we have a bit more space here so with the Paintbrush tool you are going to essentially draw lines or parts similarly to the Pen tool but the main difference here is that this tool automatically adds the anchor points for you. So when I use the direct selection tool we can see where these anchor points were created and if I select them individually they will all have handles on them because I created a smooth path. So you can consider the brush tool in a way an automatic pen tool where you don't have to worry about adding the anchor points manually but of course is not as precise as the Pen tool. So while with the Pen tool I could go in and create these parts very accurately and exactly in the shape I want. By the way you can press and hold the spacebar to move around the preview of the next anchor point. So I…

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