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Description
Easy Line Width/Weight for Illustrator CS5
Share on tumblr: [link] (:
As of right now I'm pretty sure this is a tool only for CS5, sorry if you do not have this version!

This is just a quick reference I made for people because I had a lot of trouble doing this the last few months until i found out there was a new tool @_@. Before this i would spend forever using a special triangle brush just fiddling with lines till they were how i wanted. Now there's no need to do it anymore omg SO EASY D:

Extra things you can do:
• Delete a width point: Just click on one and hit "delete"
• Select multiple points: Shift + Click each point

Official support page: [link]

This journal from =firstfear has a little animation showing what it would look like while adjusting line widths and more exameples:

Tapered Stroke (Illustrator)I just feel like sharing my joy at figuring this out haha xD

For the longest time I've not bothered with tapering my strokes in Illustrator b/c i couldn't figure out how to do it effectively. I knew one could achieve it by creating a tapered brush and applying that to the stroke, but I could just never get it to work right for me. It would seem that CS5 now has a built in function that allows you to alter the line thickness -anywhere there is a point along the path- by hitting shift+W and dragging :D

For those who do not have CS5, try this: [link]

If there are any other questions I will try to answer them but I am new to using this tool as well

You can also do something similar in Paint Tool Sai!

Description
Easy Line Width/Weight for Illustrator CS5
Share on tumblr: [link] (:
As of right now I'm pretty sure this is a tool only for CS5, sorry if you do not have this version!

This is just a quick reference I made for people because I had a lot of trouble doing this the last few months until i found out there was a new tool @_@. Before this i would spend forever using a special triangle brush just fiddling with lines till they were how i wanted. Now there's no need to do it anymore omg SO EASY D:

Extra things you can do:
• Delete a width point: Just click on one and hit "delete"
• Select multiple points: Shift + Click each point

Official support page: [link]

This journal from =firstfear has a little animation showing what it would look like while adjusting line widths and more exameples:

Tapered Stroke (Illustrator)I just feel like sharing my joy at figuring this out haha xD

For the longest time I've not bothered with tapering my strokes in Illustrator b/c i couldn't figure out how to do it effectively. I knew one could achieve it by creating a tapered brush and applying that to the stroke, but I could just never get it to work right for me. It would seem that CS5 now has a built in function that allows you to alter the line thickness -anywhere there is a point along the path- by hitting shift+W and dragging :D

For those who do not have CS5, try this: [link]

If there are any other questions I will try to answer them but I am new to using this tool as well

You can also do something similar in Paint Tool Sai!