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Shattered-Earth — Illustrator CS5 - EASY Line Width/Weight Tutorial
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Easy Line Width/Weight for Illustrator CS5Share 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!
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oh god.
oh my god.
This is just.... too good to be true.
Only thing that hit me was that it must take a bit of time to adjust the line weight for every stroke if it's a more detailed sketch.
Tho I really like that you can make it have that "pen-nib" feel to it on the end result. I will definitely try this out.
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omg right? When I found out about it I was like WAIT YOU MEAN I WASTED ALL THOSE HOURS TRYING TO GET THOSE LINES TO BE RIGHT WHEN I COULD HAVE JUST DONE THISSSSSSSSSS?
I haven't used it to ink my regular art yet (just my ponies), but i would adjust widths as i go so it shouldn't be so much of an issue for me XD.
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You have heard of the "Inkling" pen right? It's a new thing that is a pen that register all your pen strokes - so you then can import it as a vector-file (no scanner no more!), I can sure imagine using the inkling together with that magical tool in CS5 to create different inking versions of the same drawing.
hgngngng endless possibilitiesss
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Haha yes it reminds me of those pens that remember your notes when you are in class XD. Neither of which i can afford XD. I hope you have fun messing around with yours though
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I was going to purchase the Inkling but after reading reviews, it's still quite buggy. It's not very precise either in lines so if you do intricate sketches you'd be wasting a lot of time fixing it up in photoshop just to end up retracing it for final line work 
and since there is only one clip that has the infared rays and ultra sound waves (or whatever the heck it uses) it often gets interrupted by certain hand movements. You couldn't use anything like a ruler or any other drawing mechanism.
But, i have a feeling by the time the second or third version comes out, that it will have been fixed and perhaps more accurate
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