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The Blob Brush - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2024 Essential Training
The Blob Brush
- [Instructor] The Blob Brush is very different to the Brush Tool and indeed the Pencil Tool that you saw earlier in that this does not paint strokes. The Blob Brush paints fills. So Shift + B is the way to access the Blob Brush Tool. Here it is, and like the others, you can double click on the tool, or hit Enter or Return to access its options. Keep Selected is another one that you can use here, merge only with selection. I'm just going to turn that off for the time being. And a fidelity slider just here, which again, you can just get into and determine whether you want it to be more accurate or smoothed out for you. I'm going to leave it at sort of three quarters of the way towards smooth. You can change the tip shape here. So this is very much like the Eraser Tool. If you watch that particular movie, and you can change the size, the angle. You can also do that using the widget here and the roundness like so. So…
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