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JACKMORE
Lisa Jackmore
For drawings as fluid as this floral design, Lisa Jackmore finds that initially drawing
with the Paintbrush tool and a calligraphic brush is the most natural and intuitive
way to begin. However, when she wants to create specific variations to the strokes,
she then converts the brushstrokes to Basic stroked paths, so she can use the
Width tool (you can't use the Width tool on calligraphic brushstrokes). To do this,
she clicked on the Basic Brush in the Brushes panel (
Basic Stroke Version
).
Jackmore then selected the Width tool (Shift-W) and clicked on the stroke itself,
dragging the handle outwards to evenly widen the path. To make adjustments to
one side, she held the Option/Alt key while dragging the handle. To make even
further variations to the strokes, Jackmore clicked on the stroke, added new width
points, and adjusted them. She saved several profiles by selecting each modified
stroke, then from the Variable Width Profile menu in the Control panel, clicking on
the Add to Profile button, naming it, and clicking OK. To finish the design, she
selected each of the remaining paths, applied one of her saved width profiles from
the Control panel, and then increased the stroke weight on all of the paths.
Jackmore's background includes a gradient mesh object and a few bristle brush-
strokes drawn with the Paintbrush tool.
