Excellent tutorial! You seem to fancy the Blob brush (I just saw the vid you did for Wacom). Just out of curiosity what software do you use to record the videos? Camtasia maybe?
Live trace 'traces" the black ink lines AND the white of the paper and turns both of them into shapes. The shapes from the white of the paper may be obscuring your underpainting. Be sure to expand, ungroup and get rid of the white paper shapes. Then it should work.
Fantastic no-nonsense tutorial, after all I have watched I understand this more than any of them.. I just wondered if you knew about using the blob brush under a inked drawing that you have live traced? It doesn't seem to work.. although i have heard that live trace is very limited.
Yes you can use a blob brush path like any other closed path - including with mesh gradients. The blob can leave your path with a lot of extra anchor points - you could use the smooth tool a bit on the path to remove some of those if you want to simplify it, but that's up to you.
is it possible to use mesh or gradients on illustrations drawed with the blob tool ? i have a lot of figures drawed with blob tool and i want to colour them nicely and also keep them seperate so they can be moved around - possible ???
Great job, Laura!
creativediva52 1 month ago
What a cool tool. I haven't used the blob brush yet. Can't wait to try it now.
JayKaye23 10 months ago
blob
marduv 11 months ago
wait are u using a tablet?
ugh i wish i had one
my course doesnt use one so i gotta stick with the mouse........
WithLoveFromKay 1 year ago
I use Screenflow for videos. Thanks for your comment!!
coyleart 1 year ago
Excellent tutorial! You seem to fancy the Blob brush (I just saw the vid you did for Wacom). Just out of curiosity what software do you use to record the videos? Camtasia maybe?
Rampagezed 1 year ago
Live trace 'traces" the black ink lines AND the white of the paper and turns both of them into shapes. The shapes from the white of the paper may be obscuring your underpainting. Be sure to expand, ungroup and get rid of the white paper shapes. Then it should work.
coyleart 1 year ago
Fantastic no-nonsense tutorial, after all I have watched I understand this more than any of them.. I just wondered if you knew about using the blob brush under a inked drawing that you have live traced? It doesn't seem to work.. although i have heard that live trace is very limited.
Thank you very much for this anyway
Jess2impress25 1 year ago
Yes you can use a blob brush path like any other closed path - including with mesh gradients. The blob can leave your path with a lot of extra anchor points - you could use the smooth tool a bit on the path to remove some of those if you want to simplify it, but that's up to you.
coyleart 1 year ago
is it possible to use mesh or gradients on illustrations drawed with the blob tool ? i have a lot of figures drawed with blob tool and i want to colour them nicely and also keep them seperate so they can be moved around - possible ???
lykkebianca 1 year ago