Quick Tip – Using the Blob Brush and Eraser for Character Lines
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Quick Tip – Using the Blob Brush and Eraser for Character Lines

on May 20th 2010 with 14 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Illustrator CS4
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Length: 5:32 min

In this Video Quick Tip you will learn how to use a digital drawing tablet in conjunction with the Blob Brush and Eraser tools to create character outlines. If you don’t own a tablet, don’t worry, you can still follow along with this tut and achieve a great looking result. Let’s begin!

 
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Sean Kelly is a Melbourne based commercial artist, best known for his brand and website Bucket'o'Thought. He's into comics, animation, black humor, politics, low-brow art, science, physical activity and general silliness.  

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  • http://seraphipod.tumblr.com SeraphiPod

    This one rocks. Thank you.

  • http://www.tastybytes.net Brian

    non video version?

  • http://jondefreest.com Jonny Etc

    Great tutorial, but was I the only one looking for the “Razor” tool instead of the eraser?

    • http://bucketothought.com/loungekat/blog/ LoungeKat

      Was it the accent? ;) (I’m Aussie too)

  • http://www.icontut.com nabeel Khalid

    i’m guessing you don’t like bunnies or rabbits then. Nice tut.

  • http://www.scottcorgan.com Scott Corgan

    I’m all over Photoshop, but I am learning so much about illustrator from your tuts. Thanks vector tuts!

  • Random Guy

    Nice idea! I like it, but also there is a much easier way to do this, and I mean create 3 different brushes: thin-thick-thin, thick-thin and blunt thick-thin. However, this method is very technical and you won’t get those artistic imperfections.

    I’m really fond of classic, hand-drawn illustrations, so all i can say is…

    GREAT TIPS!

  • neunen

    one quick note, which you may already know, but if you place an image on a layer and change it to a “template” layer, it locks it and makes it 50% opacity. just a tiny bit quicker

    • http://bucketothought.com Sean

      Hey neunen,

      Yeah, template layer is a quick and easy way to do that, though I like to have the ability to manually adjust transparency/ blending mode while I’m Illustrating.. its just a matter of personal preference I guess.

  • sach

    video not work, Safari 4.0.5, 10.6.3

    • http://bucketothought.com/loungekat/blog/ LoungeKat

      I’ll look into this for you – thank-you for letting us know :)

  • http://www.canatabas.de Cndrk

    what the “huck” people.. nice quick tip but this advertising at the beginning is really annoying.. and click the replay button to see what happens, after the tutorial is finished ;)

  • Liza

    Nice tut! Keep sharing your knowledge :)

  • Erika

    ooooh! cool! fascinating. thank you!