Digital Tutors Lesson: Line Art in Illustrator

Last night, I sat down and watched a lesson on Digital Tutors to look for tips on how I can  improve my line art skills in Illustrator. I have been used to applying simple brush but I wanted to look at others ways to make effective line work.

• The width tool create width points and then modify them.
• The Alt key and modify the point of the width
• duplicate using the alt key
• can save it as a stroke profile
• sue the pen tool to create paths on the drawing
• Use pathfinders to make interesting shapes.
• One way to make like work is to make a shape using the pen tool then duplicate that shape then scale it down. 
• Make some minor adjustments to the rescaled shape depending on  the light source.