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Adobe CC: new Drawing Tools part 2 / neue Zeichnungs-Werkzeuge Teil 2

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TIP OF THE WEEK: How to draw with the new PENCIL TOOL in Adobe CC

It’s never been so easy to draw in Illustrator. Simply double-click the Pencil-Tool icon in your tool bar to adjust the Pencil Tool Options.

Next step: trace your drawing by using the new Pencil Tool. You’ll see how easy it flows with the right setting! You’re now even able to draw closed shapes.

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Tutorial, part 1: New Drawing Tools in Illustrator CC / Part 1

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TIPP DER WOCHE: Wie man mit dem neuen Buntstift-Werkzeug in Adobe CC zeichnet

Noch nie war es so leicht in Adobe Illustrator zu zeichnen. CC macht’s möglich! Doppelklicken Sie auf das Buntstift-Werkzeug um die Optionen zu öffnen und anzupassen.

Nächster Schritt: zeichnen Sie mit dem neuen Buntstift-Werkzeug von Adobe CC den Formen nach. Jetzt ist es sogar möglich geschlossene Formen mit dem Buntstift zu erstellen!

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Tutorial, Teil 1: Neue Zeichnungswerkzeuge in Illustrator CC / Teil 1

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Here is the final illustration / Hier ist die fertige Illustration:

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Miriam Selmi Reed is represented by Illustration Source, New York City. Portfolio and contact: Illustration Source NYC

Illustration technique: Traditional colored pencil drawing combined with digital mixed media using Smart Objects in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Copyright by Illustration Source, New York City. All rights reserved.

Illustrations-Technik: Farbstiftzeichnung gemischt mit Adobe Illustrator und Photoshop sowie Smart-Objekten. Copyright by Illustration Source, New York City. All rights reserved.

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Illustrator Tip Part 1: New Drawing Tools in Adobe Illustrator CC – Part 1
I love the new drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud; the new Curvature-tool makes tracing so much easier!

Illustrator Tip Part 2: New Drawing Tools in Adobe Illustrator CC – Part 2
I’ve also used the new Pencil-Tool in my new illustrations you see below. Click on the link to get more info.

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tip: How to draw in Adobe Illustrator CS6

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Illustrator Tipp Teil 1: Neue Zeichnungs-Werkzeuge in Adobe Illustrator CC – Teil 1
Dieses neue Krümmungs-Werkzeug macht es noch einfacher Kurven zu zeichnen und Ankerpunkte zu setzen.

Illustrator Tipp Teil 2: Neue Zeichnungs-Werkzeuge in Adobe Illustrator CC – Teil 2
Bei meinen neuen Illustrationen benutzte ich auch das neue Buntstift-Werkzeug. Klicken Sie auf den Link für mehr Info!

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tipp: Wie man mit Illustrator CS6 zeichnen kann

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Courtesy of Illustration Source

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Miriam Selmi Reed is represented by Illustration Source, New York City. Portfolio and contact: Illustration Source NYC

Illustration technique: watercolor, acrylic and pencil combined with digital mixed media using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.Copyright by Illustration Source, New York City.

Illustrations-Technik: Aquarell, Acryl mit Farbstift, gemischt mit Adobe Photoshop und Illustrator. Copyright by Illustration Source, New York City.

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Your source for commissioned illustration: ORIGINAL ART STUDIOS in New York City.

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Portfolio Original Art Studios, New York City: MIRIAM SELMI REED

Featured artist at Illustration Source, New York City

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Tutorial / Anleitung: How to draw with Illustrator CC / Wie man mit Illustrator CC zeichnet

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Copyright by SIS New York City - Courtesy of Illustration Source, NYC

Copyright by SIS New York City – Courtesy of Illustration Source, NYC

Miriam Selmi Reed is represented by Illustration Source, New York City. Portfolio and contact: Featured Artist Miriam Selmi Reed

Licensed Illustrations at Illustration Source, New York City: DATA SECURITY

Miriam worked in Zurich as a designer/illustrator in both full-time and freelance positions for advertising agencies such as Wirz BBDO and McCann Erickson. After that, she came to the United States to work for Disney on the new Disneyland Tokyo theme park designs. Miriam then went on to work with Cinesite/Kodak, the Hollywood special effects company, as staff illustrator/concept artist for various feature film projects.

Illustration Source provides you with speed and convenience. Their website design and simple pricing allows you more time to work on your project and less time searching for images and decoding costs.

The artists represented by Illustration Source are some of the best illustrators working today.

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Tutorial / Anleitung: How to use transparent layers in Photoshop / Wie man mit transparenten Ebenen in Photoshop arbeitet

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How to draw in Illustrator

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Adobe Illustrator is primarily a vector based design tool to draw clean shapes and to create resizable Logos. Whereas Photoshop is raster based and therefore pixel dependent, Illustrator is using vector shapes made out of anchor points.

Therefore the Pen Tool in Illustrator is ideal to draw paths with anchor points:
With a simple mouse CLICK, you are setting corner anchor-points. If you are clicking AND dragging with the mouse at the same time, you’ll get round anchor-points with levers, with those are round corner points and curves possible.

The Pen Tool is ideal to draw closed shapes. It’s easy! Draw your shape while setting your points until you reach the first anchor-point again; select it to close the shape and choose a fill color.

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Video Tutorial for beginners:

The Pencil Tool draws lines which you can combine with the Width Tool.
To open the options for the Pencil Tool: Double click the Pencil Tool icon in the tool sidebar. The same way you may open the Brush options if needed.

The Pencil Tool is ideal to draw lines. If you do need to close the open path into a shape;
you either have to select both end-points and go under Menu > Object > Path > Join or use the shortcut ctrl+J for PC / command+J for Mac.

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Video Tutorial for beginners:

The Width Tool in Adobe Illustrator CS6 is ideal to give your line a Brush stroke character: select the line and drag with the mouse until the line becomes wider.

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The Pen Tool and Pencil Tool are both ideal to draw clean shapes and lines. The Width Tool can help to simulate a brush line. Although to achieve structures and water color effects; the Brush Tool would be a better choice!

The Brush Tool and its options are easily to find under Menu > Window > Brushes.
On the bottom of the Brush-Option, you may find the icon for the Adobe Brush Library with all kinds of artistic brushes.

Brushes

How to create your own Brushes or alter existing Brushes in the Adobe Library, will be shown in a future tutorial.
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Additional tutorials for advanced users:
Drawing in Illustrator for advanced users

3 Minute face in Illustrator CS6 – for Advanced users – für Fortgeschrittene

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Tip of the week: How to make your own “selfie” portrait using Adobe Illustrator.
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Tipp der Woche: Wie Sie Ihr eigenes “Selfi” Portrait mit Adobe Illustrator zeichnen koennen.

Illustration done by Miriam Selmi Reed in Adobe Illustrator. Music composed, played and recorded by Michael Alan Reed / All rights reserved. Editing using Adobe After Effects and Apple Logic.