Learn to Sketch & Ink Artwork in Illustrator CC!

I love how you don't push people to buy your course, you just casually mention it. Really cool. Keep it up! We like you.

[@thenextjuanup9290]

the greatest tutorial I've seen on KZbin for inking!

[@RebelPrintMedia]

Mate,... your a wizard...thank you!

[@pravinmedia8inproduction406]

superb style! thanks for sharing

[@andreanis100]

Will you do a coloring and shading tutorial?

[@ionnan007]

I really appreciate your tutorials. They are very useful, efficient, and too the point while covering all the details. And very good balance between not missing any detail and overexplaining to the point of "and this is how you right click".

[@YashwanthP]

Thanks Nathan. Any plans of showing us how to color and shade too..😉 may be you should start a series.

[@iamarya2k21]

Agreed!

[@mrnvisible]

Checking the template box on your layer properties for the sketch will lock the layer and dim the image at the same time.

[@the_taranator]

Wow! Just gotta say thanks for this. You go fast and I have to keep stepping back but I'm slow right now. Amazingly good content.

[@nejcr26]

Great vid as always but could we get a follow up on coloring and shading?

[@rlsimmons1214]

Absolutely Awesome! Thank You For This! Working on a Children's Book. This is an immense help!

[@abdielvaldez95]

Very helpful bro !

[@olaladavid6622]

Thanks Nathaniel !! love this video

[@echomouser]

i like this video thanks for giving me help 👌

[@haviksan]

Thank you this tutorial. I've been trying to learn how to use illustrator and I've been trying to find a good guide to start with. I think I've watch over 20 of them at this point. Some waaay too long. This guide really resonated with me. Again Thanks my man 💪

[@gauridewangan2192]

Thankyou thankyou thankyou so much!

[@GetToDaChoppa-k5r]

Nice. I do something similar. Although, I draw my digital rough in blue pencil in Adobe Sketchbook. It is just easier to see the lines before I make a final inked version..

[@Grace-bb8hu]

Thank you, this was so helpful! I originally tried googling for help after just receiving a wacom tablet and all I could find was people fighting in forums without giving any help!

[@kaylagontier6772]

I just got one as struggling

[@gantimurty]

Thank you, Nathan. Thank you for all the tutorials. Appreciate it. I recently got an iPad Pro. I want to use that as a tablet or sketchpad or like Wacom tablet. I have Adobe CC on my windows 10 desktop and considering my options to connect the iPad Pro to Adobe CC 2018. Can you suggest a couple of applications that will let me use my iPad Pro (with apple pencil) effectively?

[@mpal794]

You. Are. AWESOME!

[@tutvid]

Really appreciate the kind words! 👍

[@zahrasyeda1566]

I have a question; I really enjoyed the tutorial but I still dont understand why you first imitated a rough sketch and then cleaned it up. What the benefit of that and whats the disadvantage of starting directly with the cleaned up version? Cant you directly make numerous cleaned up versions of the character?

[@joelcalderon7058]

This really helped! thanks for sharing

[@filifjonkan2000]

Hi! I got an older version of illustrator (cs6), is there anything that can have same effect as the shaper tool?

[@fatmonkey8u]

Loved this video!

[@nothingtoprove2533]

This is great! Thanks.

[@RedJo7]

The shape tool ends up erasing all my lines- how do I stop this and make it work like in the video ??

[@Navigator777777]

You are my go to instructor. What is missing from all instructional videos is, IMHO, is the history behind why you use a bush over pencil, pencil over brush….and finally convert to Live Paint……Uggggh! ;-)

[@grandmasterj5]

The shaper tool is nice, but I think the eraser tool works better. Just select the shape you want and it will only erase that line, even when there are other shapes overlapping/crossing

[@dexm795]

Excellent tips. Thank you!

[@MrZlep]

Awesome, thanks. color and shade tutorial would be great. One question: Why do you not use the pen tool? I don't like the pencil tool. Do you think the pen tool would also work? Deke McClelland only does it with the pen tool.

[@grandmasterj5]

It's the same thing really. Pen tool or brush, they both use paths, only the way they are created is different. I do illustration for a living, and I find the pen tool is better for tighter and cleaner shapes/objects. It really depends on what the final result is though. If you want something loser, faster and more natural then the brush tool works just fine. The same result can be done with both though too :)

[@binhhuynh621]

Thank you. This video helps me a lot.

[@carlybingcampf]

Thank you for the tutorial! I appreciate it!!!

[@pmoverecords]

You speak fast, but I listen fast! You always have great content without boring me to death with long explanations!

[@PhilKoenigBrooklyn]

Is the shaper tool the reason you would use Illustrator instead of PS?

[@dokicookie]

thanks... now i can illustrate all my drawed stuff :D

[@manuelkoch375]

i'm using cs6 and don't have the shaper tool to trim the paths or maybe i just dont find it, i'm new to ai. is there an alternative in cs6?

[@delacroixsasha2719]

You help me a lot! Thanks~

[@jeremydaily]

great tutorial!

[@DestroyCooperative]

i dont understand why you decide to make an art brush as opposed to a pressure sensitive calligraphic brush since you are working with a stylus/tablet. It just seems more organic and with more control to use pressure for the inking.

[@CarlosDelaoGunEngraver]

brother how do you combine brush strokes into one complete shape?

[@Aggaremtes]

I need serious help with vectorisation arts. When I draw on a black slate the pen colour's black but when I add a scanned drawing in order to redraw over it, the pen colour always turns white. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

[@winterfresh42]

Can anyone please tell me how he does the zoom-in bubble thing? I use Illustrator CC 2020 for windows 10. I tried google searching for this function but I couldn't find anything helpful, just quick keys for zoom-in/out. I appreciate the help!

[@mariebaffoe-bonnie5136]

ctrl + (zoom in) or ctrl -( zoom out) for windows....if you use a Mac, kindly replace the Ctrl key with the Command key

[@rssujon6406]

Thank you for great video. :)

[@susanpratt3290]

This is a good tutorial.

[@tutvid]

Thanks, Susan!

[@terrology]

Needed this...thanks for reading my mind 😁

[@artteacher3604]

amazing... thanx so much... greetings from Pakistan..

[@happycutebox]

Thanks for making it so easy! God bless you :)

[@Nkhmwahl]

thanQ so much amazing tutorial do you have any courses like this about drawing and coloring in illustrator ?

[@sssssolar]

Thanks, great job!)

[@Ue_niverse]

Mine shows a pencil icon with like a close mark how do i fic that i doesn't let me trace my image

[@sammyogoli7306]

Is He using a Pen or wacom device?

[@BlazeBieberHaruno]

@Grim Games SAME HAHAH

[@Bunthengsay]

First Comment From Cambodia :) :)

[@klarahelenenielsen6279]

cant find the way to do the brushpen so freely (without that it is vector-based) completely beginner here :D anyone knows how? and thank you so much for the videos!

[@romoparto]

please next tutorial shading & coloring

[@PolymerJones]

this shaper tool is funky sometimes it works sometimes it just makes a shape while holding ALT.. i don't get it..

[@KhayJayArt]

Whenever I use shaper tool, it changed the thickness of the line. I just decided to erase it INSTEAD because it wouldn't allow me to Change the line thickness to what it was before.

[@PolymerJones]

@@KhayJayArt you could have an extra object on the side in your document with the line profile you like and when you have Eyedropper selected press Return (or Enter) and check Appearance so when you use the Eyedropper it copies the stroke.

[@amanbagrecha]

thanks man

[@gantimurty]

Nathan, if you have an affiliate link to the app, you can post here so that I can buy it from that link, just saying

[@avinashbhagat3160]

thnku tuts

[@art_of_line]

quite interesting way of drawing. different from mine

[@aayushdubey8327]

unableto find properties panel in essential

[@robertjenkins8630]

That was awesome my friend. You did an excellent job explaining your every move as well as just an excellent job all the way around. Many thanks. I’m hitting the subscribe on my iPhone but nothing is happening. I’ll figure it out.

[@conz8000]

Fvckin genius. Thank you 🙏🏾 I will 🎁 you when I can

[@tonestones9445]

Superb tutorial. Thanks so much. Only observation to make it even more pleasurable would be to talk a lot slower so that your advice can be absorbed more readily. I turned speed down to 50% which helped a lot although your voice sounds a little drooling :) excellent nevertheless👍

[@thetruetimedesigner]

On what kinda paper you drew dude? Kinda looks different.. like my U.K.G maths note

[@asdfdesigner5884]

On grid paper

[@thetruetimedesigner]

ASDF designer Thanks for your reply buddy!

[@rioresyamegantara5066]

Thanks for your tutorial,,, I hope you make some tutorial how to paint the sketch ... :)

[@cecilblak8083]

Brother I been working on photoshop for two month on the same book trying my hardest to convert my line art to a pro look and nothing is work

[@DevilOfficialSalgnREC]

thank you

[@Mzah154]

10:50

[@BrandonDunwell]

Love From India

[@Babaquice]

why did you disable subtitles?

[@evildyl]

3:35. That's all.

[@tawfeeq-td191]

you'r goooooooooooooood one

[@Taiwaneverything]

Neat.

[@BendtProductions]

Thank you. Illustrator can be intimidating. You are speaking a little to fast for me. Also I am using CS5 so I got lost with the shaper tool around the 11 min. mark. It does not look or act the same. However everything else was helpful!

[@sameseat]

I've been doing it wrong this whole time LOL

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[@editorashik643]

Please tell about animation And how to create animation video Help me and explain to me Or give me a tutorial

[@ravindrayusuf6478]

🤗

[@feardieshogun8153]

wat de hell there is no auto subtitle

[@habdman]

Papi rico

[@maeveofthelongbows9552]

He talks way too fast to follow along with.

[@nordfaen]

AWESOME :D Thank YOU very much :)