
Adobe Illustrator Tutorial using Wacom Tablet
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR USING WACOM TABLET
In this Adobe Illustrator Tutorial for Beginners, we will be going through how to use the Pencil Tool with your Tablet. This will be another option for your tablet workflow that is extremely user-friendly since we are turning up are smoothing very high. We will be practicing joining paths to maintain our sharp corners in this tutorial. The pencil tool is one of the easier tools to use and master with the tablet. If you don’t have a Tablet, switch over to using the Pen Tool while we are building Paths with the Pencil Tool. This tutorial will focus on Building Tools, Applying Brushes, Editing Options, and Basic Coloring Techniques.



Pencil Tool Options
Here are some of the Pencil Tool Options that I recommend. I will go through some of them so you can modify them depending on your drawing style.
The first slide bar is the Fidelity or Smoothing setting. This one is great for those of you who want to go fast and hate hitting Control/Command + Z (undo) all the time in other programs. This will clean up the line as you draw and will remove unnecessary anchor points.
The main 2 Options that I want to cover is the Keep Selected and Edit Selected Paths down at the bottom. This is so we can edit and join as we go. The ability to join helps a lot and allows us to get back corners that the smoothing will potentially round out. Notice the bottom and the within 0 (zero) pixels. This will remove the rewrite or auto correct which is pretty frustrating if you don't want it.

TABLET SETTINGS
Tablet Settings
Most of the tablet settings that I can adjust have been turned off or disabled. All of the short cuts will come from the keyboard shortcuts for Illustrator not the tablet. If you have a rather large tablet that you can't reach your keyboard then I would set up your Express keys.
Pencil Settings
Turn your smoothing (fidelity) all the way up. This will keep your lines extremely smooth. I would also have the fills turned off. The keep selected box will be on for this tutorial since we are working on joining paths, especially sharp corners.
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