![]() Next, draw a smaller brush stroke shape within the first one with the Pencil Tool (n) and make sure the paths don’t overlap. An easily way to close the path is to hold down Option / Alt right before you are done drawing, as explained in a previous post. Also, make sure to close the path for the brush shape you just created. Make sure to create some rough edges in the brush, this really helps the “bleeding” effect you get with watercolors. It does not have to be exact, just rough dimensions for your first brush. Start drawing a brush stroke shape with the Pencil Tool (n), around a height of. 5 pixels, just like in the Vectortuts tutorial. In this dialog, you want the Fidelity to be. Double-click on the Pencil Tool (n) in the Tools Panel to bring up the Pencil Tool Preferences dialog. To start, you will need to set the some of the Pencil Tool’s setting. ![]() You might be saying “Doesn’t Illustrator already supply you with some watercolor brushes?” You are right, but the brushes we are going to create have soft edges that blend well together, making them look more like watercolor brushes. ⌘ is displayed for the Command key (mac), with the Ctrl key being the Windows equivalent (not displayed). Keyboard shortcuts are displayed in orange. This tutorial was created with Illustrator CS3. If you haven’t checked out the post, you should now! In the following tutorial I will explain how to create a couple watercolor brushes, adding to the VectorTuts tutorial, and at the end of the tutorial you can download some Free Vectips Watercolor Brushes! ![]() This post is an extension of my Watercolor Vector Flower Illustration tutorial that appears on.
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