1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:02.02 - [Instructor] In this movie, we'll see what it looks like 2 00:00:02.02 --> 00:00:05.04 to combine the Blob Brush along with the drawing tablet 3 00:00:05.04 --> 00:00:07.07 and a pressure sensitive stylus. 4 00:00:07.07 --> 00:00:10.06 So the first thing I'm going to do is create a new document 5 00:00:10.06 --> 00:00:14.01 by going up to the File menu and choosing New from Template, 6 00:00:14.01 --> 00:00:15.07 and then I'll go ahead and double-click 7 00:00:15.07 --> 00:00:18.08 on that template file that I created a few chapters back. 8 00:00:18.08 --> 00:00:21.06 Then I'll go up to the View menu, choose Guides, 9 00:00:21.06 --> 00:00:24.02 and choose Clear Guides to get rid of them. 10 00:00:24.02 --> 00:00:26.07 And now I'm going to go ahead and rename my layers. 11 00:00:26.07 --> 00:00:28.06 I'll call the bottom one Colors 12 00:00:28.06 --> 00:00:31.02 and then I'll call the top one Lines. 13 00:00:31.02 --> 00:00:34.01 And now I'll go ahead and select the Blob Brush, 14 00:00:34.01 --> 00:00:37.02 which again, these days I can get by pressing the B key. 15 00:00:37.02 --> 00:00:38.08 And then I'll press the Enter key, 16 00:00:38.08 --> 00:00:40.00 or the Return key on the Mac, 17 00:00:40.00 --> 00:00:43.04 to bring up my Blob Brush Tool Options dialog box. 18 00:00:43.04 --> 00:00:44.09 And the first thing I'm going to do is 19 00:00:44.09 --> 00:00:48.06 increase the roundness value to its maximum, which is 100%, 20 00:00:48.06 --> 00:00:52.05 and then I'm going to associate the Size not with Fixed, 21 00:00:52.05 --> 00:00:54.09 but rather with Pressure. 22 00:00:54.09 --> 00:00:57.04 And then I'll go ahead and click OK. 23 00:00:57.04 --> 00:01:00.04 All right, now I'm once again working with the Wacom Cintiq, 24 00:01:00.04 --> 00:01:02.06 but any tablet that supports pressure will do. 25 00:01:02.06 --> 00:01:05.01 And now I'll just go ahead and paint, 26 00:01:05.01 --> 00:01:06.08 and even though I'm varying the pressure, 27 00:01:06.08 --> 00:01:08.06 I'm getting a uniform stroke. 28 00:01:08.06 --> 00:01:11.06 And that's because I ignored a value in that dialog box 29 00:01:11.06 --> 00:01:12.07 just a moment ago. 30 00:01:12.07 --> 00:01:13.09 And so I'm just going to go ahead 31 00:01:13.09 --> 00:01:16.05 and press the Backspace key, or the Delete key on the Mac, 32 00:01:16.05 --> 00:01:17.09 to get rid of that path. 33 00:01:17.09 --> 00:01:20.07 And I'll press the Enter key, or the Return key, 34 00:01:20.07 --> 00:01:23.08 in order to bring up the Blob Brush options dialog box. 35 00:01:23.08 --> 00:01:25.03 This is our culprit right there. 36 00:01:25.03 --> 00:01:27.09 Notice that the variation is set to zero. 37 00:01:27.09 --> 00:01:29.05 It should be set to something higher. 38 00:01:29.05 --> 00:01:33.02 So for example, if I set the Size value to 24 points, 39 00:01:33.02 --> 00:01:35.03 and then I take the Variation value 40 00:01:35.03 --> 00:01:37.07 up to 24 points as well-- 41 00:01:37.07 --> 00:01:40.08 it can't be any bigger than the size value, by the way-- 42 00:01:40.08 --> 00:01:42.08 then I can vary the size of my brush 43 00:01:42.08 --> 00:01:45.02 all the way down to nothing, at which point 44 00:01:45.02 --> 00:01:47.06 I'll go ahead and click OK to accept that change. 45 00:01:47.06 --> 00:01:49.05 And then I'll just go ahead 46 00:01:49.05 --> 00:01:52.04 and enter the first letter of my last name, 47 00:01:52.04 --> 00:01:54.07 and I'll add a couple of C's as well, 48 00:01:54.07 --> 00:01:56.01 as you're seeing me do here. 49 00:01:56.01 --> 00:01:57.04 And the real point of the matter 50 00:01:57.04 --> 00:01:59.04 is not that I can spell my name weirdly, 51 00:01:59.04 --> 00:02:01.06 but rather that I am varying the thickness 52 00:02:01.06 --> 00:02:03.03 of my brush strokes. 53 00:02:03.03 --> 00:02:04.05 And now I'll just go ahead 54 00:02:04.05 --> 00:02:06.08 and add an ampersand at this point, 55 00:02:06.08 --> 00:02:09.01 and a couple of additional lines as well. 56 00:02:09.01 --> 00:02:10.02 And now I'll go ahead 57 00:02:10.02 --> 00:02:12.07 and draw the first letter of my first name, 58 00:02:12.07 --> 00:02:15.03 along with a kind of modified K, 59 00:02:15.03 --> 00:02:19.02 and then a couple of E's inside of it like so. 60 00:02:19.02 --> 00:02:21.06 And next I'll press Control + Shift + A, 61 00:02:21.06 --> 00:02:23.00 or Command + Shift + A on the Mac, 62 00:02:23.00 --> 00:02:26.00 to deselect my artwork, and I'll click on the Colors layer 63 00:02:26.00 --> 00:02:28.08 to make it active, and then I'll click on the Fill swatch, 64 00:02:28.08 --> 00:02:31.01 the very first swatch up here in the Control Panel, 65 00:02:31.01 --> 00:02:33.03 and I'll change it to this light shade of green 66 00:02:33.03 --> 00:02:38.02 which, for what it's worth, is R:140 G:198 B:63. 67 00:02:38.02 --> 00:02:40.05 Then I'll press the Enter key, or the Return key on the Mac, 68 00:02:40.05 --> 00:02:42.02 to accept that change. 69 00:02:42.02 --> 00:02:45.08 And now I'll just go ahead and paint inside of here. 70 00:02:45.08 --> 00:02:48.00 And even though I'm being pretty sloppy about it, 71 00:02:48.00 --> 00:02:51.04 just because I don't want to waste too much of your time, 72 00:02:51.04 --> 00:02:54.07 I do have the option of painting into the corners 73 00:02:54.07 --> 00:02:56.02 if I'm a little more careful, 74 00:02:56.02 --> 00:02:59.00 because I can vary that pressure on the fly. 75 00:02:59.00 --> 00:03:01.09 And now I'll paint this light green, let's say, 76 00:03:01.09 --> 00:03:04.05 into each of the C's. 77 00:03:04.05 --> 00:03:05.08 And if you see something like that, 78 00:03:05.08 --> 00:03:07.09 right there where I'm pointing my cursor, 79 00:03:07.09 --> 00:03:09.06 that little cluster of anchor points shows me 80 00:03:09.06 --> 00:03:10.09 that I have a hole. 81 00:03:10.09 --> 00:03:14.04 And now I'll go ahead and paint down here, let's say, 82 00:03:14.04 --> 00:03:17.00 and then I'm going to paint inside the E 83 00:03:17.00 --> 00:03:19.00 with this light green as well. 84 00:03:19.00 --> 00:03:20.04 And I'll paint right there 85 00:03:20.04 --> 00:03:21.03 and right there 86 00:03:21.03 --> 00:03:24.01 inside the ampersand just for fun. 87 00:03:24.01 --> 00:03:25.07 And this guy needs a little bit of work, 88 00:03:25.07 --> 00:03:26.07 so I'll Control + Click, 89 00:03:26.07 --> 00:03:28.05 or Command + Click on him on the Mac, 90 00:03:28.05 --> 00:03:30.06 and paint that in like so. 91 00:03:30.06 --> 00:03:32.08 And now I'll go ahead and press Control + Shift + A, 92 00:03:32.08 --> 00:03:34.00 or Command + Shift + A on the Mac, 93 00:03:34.00 --> 00:03:35.02 to deselect my artwork 94 00:03:35.02 --> 00:03:37.02 and I'll click on the Fill swatch again 95 00:03:37.02 --> 00:03:42.01 and select this darker green, R:0 G:146 B:69. 96 00:03:42.01 --> 00:03:43.04 And I'll press the Escape key 97 00:03:43.04 --> 00:03:45.02 to go ahead and hide that panel. 98 00:03:45.02 --> 00:03:49.04 And then I'm going to paint into this region of the E 99 00:03:49.04 --> 00:03:51.06 right there like so, 100 00:03:51.06 --> 00:03:55.06 and I'm going to paint into this region as well. 101 00:03:55.06 --> 00:03:57.03 I kind of made a mess of that first guy. 102 00:03:57.03 --> 00:03:59.03 Actually this guy's not that great either, 103 00:03:59.03 --> 00:04:01.02 so I'll go ahead and paint a little more into it, 104 00:04:01.02 --> 00:04:03.01 and then I'll Control + Click or Command + Click 105 00:04:03.01 --> 00:04:06.07 on this first path, and I'll paint into it a little bit too. 106 00:04:06.07 --> 00:04:08.08 And then I'm going to switch to the Eraser tool, 107 00:04:08.08 --> 00:04:11.02 which nowadays I can get by pressing the E key. 108 00:04:11.02 --> 00:04:12.08 It supports pressure as well, 109 00:04:12.08 --> 00:04:14.03 so all I have to do if I want to 110 00:04:14.03 --> 00:04:17.06 erase with pressure sensitivity is press the Enter key, 111 00:04:17.06 --> 00:04:19.03 or the Return key on the Mac. 112 00:04:19.03 --> 00:04:21.08 And then I'm going to change the Roundness value 113 00:04:21.08 --> 00:04:23.03 back to 100%. 114 00:04:23.03 --> 00:04:25.00 I'm going to set the Size value to, 115 00:04:25.00 --> 00:04:27.03 let's say, that same value 24. 116 00:04:27.03 --> 00:04:30.02 I'm going to change Fixed right here to Pressure, 117 00:04:30.02 --> 00:04:31.09 and I'm going to take the Variation value 118 00:04:31.09 --> 00:04:34.00 as high as it goes, which is 24 points, 119 00:04:34.00 --> 00:04:37.04 the same as the Size value, and then I'll click OK. 120 00:04:37.04 --> 00:04:40.08 And now I'll just go ahead and erase with pressure. 121 00:04:40.08 --> 00:04:42.05 Notice the fine-tuned control 122 00:04:42.05 --> 00:04:45.08 that I have here on the edge of that path outline, 123 00:04:45.08 --> 00:04:47.09 and I'll do the same right here as well. 124 00:04:47.09 --> 00:04:50.06 And I'm only affecting the selected shape, of course. 125 00:04:50.06 --> 00:04:52.02 And now I'll press Control + Shift + A, 126 00:04:52.02 --> 00:04:53.03 or Command + Shift + A on the Mac, 127 00:04:53.03 --> 00:04:54.09 to deselect that path. 128 00:04:54.09 --> 00:04:58.00 And I'll switch to my Blob Brush and I'll go ahead 129 00:04:58.00 --> 00:05:00.07 and paint with the dark green up in this area, 130 00:05:00.07 --> 00:05:03.02 and maybe I'll try to be a little more careful this time. 131 00:05:03.02 --> 00:05:07.02 And then I'll paint down here as well. 132 00:05:07.02 --> 00:05:08.00 And you know what? 133 00:05:08.00 --> 00:05:09.06 If I want to get better results, 134 00:05:09.06 --> 00:05:12.07 then it would perhaps be useful to me 135 00:05:12.07 --> 00:05:14.06 to change the Fidelity setting. 136 00:05:14.06 --> 00:05:17.02 So I'll press the Enter key, or the Return key on the Mac, 137 00:05:17.02 --> 00:05:20.04 and I'll move the slider in the direction of Accurate, 138 00:05:20.04 --> 00:05:22.07 and then I'll click OK. 139 00:05:22.07 --> 00:05:25.00 And that way, I'll get less rounding out of the tool 140 00:05:25.00 --> 00:05:29.02 as I paint inside of these regions right here, 141 00:05:29.02 --> 00:05:33.01 including between the two letter C's, let's say. 142 00:05:33.01 --> 00:05:35.00 And this is just the effect I came up with. 143 00:05:35.00 --> 00:05:37.05 You will obviously want to go your way 144 00:05:37.05 --> 00:05:40.02 as opposed to spelling my name, I would imagine. 145 00:05:40.02 --> 00:05:41.06 And now I'll press Control + Shift + A, 146 00:05:41.06 --> 00:05:43.00 or Command + Shift + A on the Mac, 147 00:05:43.00 --> 00:05:44.07 to deselect my artwork. 148 00:05:44.07 --> 00:05:46.07 And you can see that we have a series of 149 00:05:46.07 --> 00:05:48.09 variable-weight path outlines. 150 00:05:48.09 --> 00:05:51.00 And what's so great about this is 151 00:05:51.00 --> 00:05:53.07 that you can go very nuts indeed. 152 00:05:53.07 --> 00:05:55.06 I'm not going to paint this for you right now, 153 00:05:55.06 --> 00:05:58.06 but this is something that I painted in advance 154 00:05:58.06 --> 00:06:03.02 using a drawing tablet, specifically a Wacom Intuos, 155 00:06:03.02 --> 00:06:05.05 along with a pressure sensitive stylus. 156 00:06:05.05 --> 00:06:07.00 And you can see, if I go ahead 157 00:06:07.00 --> 00:06:09.00 and turn these layers off right there, 158 00:06:09.00 --> 00:06:11.00 that I started with this tracing template, 159 00:06:11.00 --> 00:06:14.02 and then I've got all this brushwork up at the top here. 160 00:06:14.02 --> 00:06:16.02 I have this layer of yellow elements. 161 00:06:16.02 --> 00:06:18.04 So you can see I'm trying to keep my different colors 162 00:06:18.04 --> 00:06:19.04 on different layers. 163 00:06:19.04 --> 00:06:22.00 And then finally, this just white layer 164 00:06:22.00 --> 00:06:24.04 contains a big white rectangle 165 00:06:24.04 --> 00:06:27.03 in order to cover up the template in the background. 166 00:06:27.03 --> 00:06:28.05 And that's how you combine 167 00:06:28.05 --> 00:06:30.02 both the Blob Brush and the eraser 168 00:06:30.02 --> 00:06:34.02 with a drawing tablet and a pressure sensitive stylus 169 00:06:34.02 --> 00:06:36.06 in order to achieve very painterly effects 170 00:06:36.06 --> 00:06:39.03 here inside Illustrator.