Adobe Illustrator Tutorial using Wacom Tablet

In this Illustrator Tutorial using Pressure, we will be using a tablet to start from the initial sketch. This is more of a direct approach to drawing rather than tracing the image with the pen tool or shapes. This will be for those who are looking to gain a little more practice getting down your lines and have a little issue with the idea of tracing. The major troubleshooting to be aware of is in the Blob Brush settings.

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TRACING WORKFLOW?
Blob Brush is a pretty funny workflow. It is just tracing. The major goal as you are tracing along is to go long with your lines or strokes. Adding Pressure will tend to look pretty crappy if you try to match the edges of each stroke up exactly. Look for uneven blobs or rounded edges as the lines merge together.

ZOOM IN OR OUT
As you play around around with the Pressure Settings and the tool, be aware that there is a comfort level of how zoomed in or out you are. If you zoom in, I would recommend shrinking the brush size. It tends to get more sensitive the more zoomed in you get.

Grip Pen Settings
Default settings are a great place to start. As you practice more you can tweak a few, but you will see mine haven’t changed. Play around with the tip feel by using the customize feature. You will be looking for control of thick to thin when using pressure.

Pressure Test
When we are drawing out thick to thin variations using your Blob Brush pay attention to these areas:
-Blob or Hard to Control Line Thickness = adjust pressure up to firm.
-Line Breaking at the End or Hard to Get First Part of Line = Too Firm

External Tools
I have access to my keyboard and a mouse for using the Keyboard Shortcuts and my non-tablet based workflows in Adobe Illustrator. I do recommend an external or USB Keyboard if you can no longer reach your keyboard due to your tablet or workstation setup.

Tablet Settings
Follow the direction on your tablet for how to install the drivers and set up first. Look for their Properties or Settings. Most of the tablet settings that I can adjust have been turned off or disabled. All of the short cuts will come from the keyboard shortcuts for Illustrator not the tablet. If you have a rather large tablet that you can’t reach your keyboard then I would set up your Express keys.

Blob Brush Settings
The major two settings are right at the top of the Blob Brush settings. You want Keep Selected turned OFF. The Merge Only with Selected turned ON. You are controlling how the tool merges with itself. These settings have to be exact or everything will merge together and Deleting All is the solution.
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