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Freehand Drawing with Illustrator Pencil Tool
I am traditionally a fine art designer - what that means is my background comes from freehand drawing (still lifes and human forms) print making, painting, etc. Because Adobe Illustrator is so cool, yet so rigid, I needed to find a fine balance between my sketchbooks and beautiful Vector Art. I present to you (drum roll please…) The Pencil Tool.
Now this is not just any pencil tool in the tool kit - its a fine tuned vector forming machine! For a while there I was doing a lot of Photographic Rotoscoping for projects - actually I still employ these pricipals today - all the time. What I learned is that Pencil tool needs some love - If you double click on the Pencil toolin Illustrator you can set the Tolornce, Roundness and Threshold for editing purposes.Try using the settingsbelow - or create one that fits your Drawing style. Combine this technique with a WACOM tablet - and watch out Picaso - its on - vector style!
Here is an example of a photo that I Rotoscoped. Love you Grandpo!
