Brush Makin’ Time

By Brian Romero | Published: February 2, 2007

Alrighty, I promised to make a quick tutorial on setting up your own brush for digital inking with a Wacom Tablet in Adobe Illustrator. So here we go!

First create a new document. Then make sure the brushes palette is visible, if it’s not then press F5 to open it.

Now click on the ‘create new’ icon to the left of the trash icon.


Select ‘new calligraphic brush’ and hit ‘ok’.


Change the ‘diameter’ pulldown menu from ‘fixed’ to ‘pressure’. Now change ‘diameter’ point size to 4pt and the variation to 4pt. Press ‘ok’ when you’re done. Later on you can make smaller or larger brushes.

That’s it! Have fun with the freedom and control of digital vector inks! Tomorrow I’ll be posting a basic inking tutorial to get you started using your new tool.

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6 Comments

  1. Art F.
    Posted February 2, 2007 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

    sweet! thanks Brian!

  2. Marc Deckter
    Posted February 2, 2007 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for posting this Brian! I’ve been wanting to learn Illustrator for a long time!

    Looking forward to tomorrow’s tutorial….

  3. J.E.Daniels
    Posted March 1, 2007 at 5:37 pm | Permalink

    Sweet post man!
    I’ve been wanting to learn how to do this as well.

  4. Clinton
    Posted June 10, 2007 at 7:01 pm | Permalink

    Thank you for the brush making demo. I found another one at Dani Draws dot com if you or anyone else is interested.

  5. J.R. Spumkin
    Posted January 27, 2009 at 6:02 pm | Permalink

    What kind of Wacom tablet were you using, Brian?

  6. Brian Romero
    Posted February 18, 2009 at 9:43 am | Permalink

    Intuos 3 6×11. Hopefully I can score a Cintiq the first half of 2009!