


The video below walks you through just how to do so, or read on for even more detail.

And while using shapes, lines, and curves with the Rectangle, Line, and Pen tools is the standard way to use software like Illustrator, you can use a Wacom pen tablet or display to draw directly in Illustrator. Some artists and illustrators prefer to use vectors. If you’re a beginner, the main idea is that vector graphics can be resized however large or small you’d like without losing any quality, while raster graphics can’t. One of the primary reasons is that design software like Adobe Illustrator typically uses vector graphics as opposed to Photoshop’s raster graphics. While most people who draw or paint digitally use a program optimized for doing so - Clip Studio Paint, Rebelle, Corel Painter, or Adobe Photoshop - some prefer instead to work in software programs optimized for design work.
