Lynda - Artistic Painting with Illustrator Natural Media Brushes

In this course, artist Sharon Steuer shows how to paint with the various natural media brushes inside Adobe Illustrator, one of the most overlooked sets of artistic tools in the entire Adobe Creative Suite. Along the way, she offers suggestions on how to customize these brushes to help express your creativity. Discover how to configure your workspace, adjust tool options, and set up a tablet. Then investigate the multiple styles of brushes in Illustrator?from Calligraphic, Bristle, and naturalistic Art brushes to Blob brushes and stroke profiles. Sharon also shows how to combine brushes and effects with other Illustrator features to maximize your control when drawing, painting, and adding expressive strokes in Illustrator.

Topics include:

Drawing and tracing with Wacom and Cintiq tablets

Maximizing control without a tablet

Demystifying Paintbrush tool preferences

Integrating brushes with other tools such as Smooth and Pencil

Adding brushes to objects and text

Creating naturalistic strokes with the Art brush tools

Picking up, storing, and applying brushes

Duplicating and customizing brushes

Creating transparent washes and watercolor with Calligraphic brushes

Drawing and erasing with the Blob Brush tool

Adding stroke profiles to lines and brushes

Organizing complex images with layers

Ideas for how to combine Illustrator brushes with Photoshop, and even with traditional media

author Sharon Steuer

?subjectDesign, Color, Digital Painting?

software Illustrator CS5, CS6

level Intermediate

duration 3h 2mreleased Feb 15, 2013