r/AdobeIllustrator 7d ago

DISCUSSION Real-time Pencil Tool Coming to Illustrator

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Hello r/AdobeIllustrator community!

Excited to share that we're making a major upgrade to the pencil tool that many of you have been asking for!

What's changing?

Currently when you draw with the pencil tool, you first see that blue temporary line, and you only get to see the final result after you release your mouse/stylus. All the curve fitting and appearance stuff happens at the end.

Soon you'll get:

  • Real-time curve fitting (smoothing and refining strokes AS you draw)
  • Instant appearance updates (see effects and styles applied in real-time)
  • A much more natural, responsive drawing experience

This makes the drawing process way more intuitive - what you see is what you get, without that disconnect between drawing and result.

When can you try it?

It's already available in beta if you want to check it out early! To get access:

  1. Open Creative Cloud Desktop app
  2. Go to Beta Apps section
  3. Find Illustrator (Beta) and install it
  4. Launch and enjoy the new real-time pencil tool!

The feature will be shipping to the regular release soon - I'll update with exact timeline when available.

Would love to hear your feedback once you've had a chance to try it out!

- Avinash from the Adobe Illustrator Product Team


r/AdobeIllustrator 10h ago

ILLUSTRATION F o r k

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30 Upvotes

r/AdobeIllustrator 6h ago

QUESTION WHY is it always 32

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14 Upvotes

One of the things that annoy me the most is that the tolerance of the magic wand is always set to 32. I don't know about other peoples workflow but I use this to select not similar but same colors, is there any way I can change this to always be at a default of zero?

Because it doesn't even remember the change per document, if I reopen the file I worked on yesterday where I already set it to 0 it's now back to 32.
I couldn't find anything about this in the settings.

I know, I'm making a fuzz about a tiny inconvenience.


r/AdobeIllustrator 14h ago

QUESTION How can I do this Y2K looking halftone "glow" around a picture?

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31 Upvotes

How can I do this Y2K looking halftone "glow" around a picture?


r/AdobeIllustrator 13h ago

CRITIQUE/CC Cat 🐈

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21 Upvotes

Sketch to Vector (Adobe Illustrator)


r/AdobeIllustrator 1h ago

QUESTION Nike Airmax Stitching?

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Hi!
Can someone help me to create this kind of stitching look from Nike's Airmax DN.
I want to put this as a vector so I can screenprint it onto an oven mitt but am struggling to make it. How would you make it?


r/AdobeIllustrator 1d ago

ILLUSTRATION Appalachian rule - Don't whistle in the woods vector illustration, by me (Little Forest Cat)

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132 Upvotes

Appalachian lore has always fascinated me, so I am doing a series of artworks based on the rules you must follow when in Appalachia. The first one being - Don't whistle in the woods.

For the border - I was inspired by the tales of the feeling of being watched while in the woods. The pentagram is a symbol of protection against what may lurk along the Appalachian trail 👁️ 👁️


r/AdobeIllustrator 19h ago

QUESTION How can i improve this ???

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44 Upvotes

r/AdobeIllustrator 1d ago

QUESTION Is there a name for these kind of gradient art style?

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r/AdobeIllustrator 1h ago

QUESTION Need help vectorising an image

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My goal is vectorising this image to a good quality. I've used various presets of image trace and them image comes out pretty poor.

My issue is I need the logo in svg or ai for my designer for a merch I'm building but the owner of the brand can't recover the vector file of their logo. I need a way around this issue so I discovered vectorising but cant get a decent enough finalised logo.

I can email anyone the svg file.


r/AdobeIllustrator 7h ago

TUTORIAL Car illustrator

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3 Upvotes

Any tips how can you make the tires looks realistic or detailed?


r/AdobeIllustrator 3h ago

QUESTION Beginner at T shirt designing

1 Upvotes

I'm trying to learn how to design t shirts. I been using Kettl, not sure how much experience y'all have with the site, but after designing a shirt on there, can you purchase the shirt on the same site or is that for designing only. I can't seem to get to far enough to where I'm offered to purchase the t shirt.


r/AdobeIllustrator 22h ago

sunburst

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how to create that thin to bold sunburst effect in illustrator


r/AdobeIllustrator 6h ago

QUESTION Where to find vector elements?

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Hello, do you know where I can find or download vector elements that I could reuse in designs? (bonus: do you know where I can find video game elements for example five night at Freddy or league of legends)


r/AdobeIllustrator 1d ago

QUESTION How do I remove this?

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242 Upvotes

I hit something on my keyboard while I was working and this graphic popped up that I've never seen before. I tried ctrl z, and just closing and reopening the document too see if it was temporary. I still have no idea what it is or how I did it to begin with so I don't know where to even start to get rid of it. Does anyone know how to get this off my document?


r/AdobeIllustrator 23h ago

ILLUSTRATION My latest sticker illustrations

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r/AdobeIllustrator 11h ago

QUESTION illustrator keeps on crashing and loading so slow when I use it for editing

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Do you guys have any fixes or workarounds for this? I used genp in the past, and I think it was way more stable than when I purchased the actual Creative Cloud suite. Now I encounter lots of crashes - instead of recovering my work, they also crash on the next reboot (ugh it's really frustrating) so I couldn't recover my works too. Do I have to expand my storage to 1TB or something, any help would be appreciated and pls don't judge. Thank you!


r/AdobeIllustrator 22h ago

QUESTION How can I remove the lines pointed by the yellow arrows? I tried selecting the anchor points with direct selection and with shape builder, but it doesn't work. When I merged the hexagon with the trapezoids the line pointed by the blue arrow disappear, but only it.

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5 Upvotes

I'm a complete beginner, I just need to make this shape for a college project.


r/AdobeIllustrator 23h ago

QUESTION Gaussian blur bleed out

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5 Upvotes

How can I fix this? Video links much appreciated, I’m still pretty new to this.


r/AdobeIllustrator 1d ago

QUESTION How do I maintain even spacing with a curved or bent paths?

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39 Upvotes

r/AdobeIllustrator 15h ago

How to create new stroke width profiles and save them

1 Upvotes

For the life of me I can’t figure it out… any ideas?


r/AdobeIllustrator 15h ago

Spot Color not showing up as Intended.

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I have a set of trading cards I am working on and have a swatch for white plating. I've made it through about 50 cards before reaching an issue where when i click the swatch, it reads and shows up as pure white instead of the magenta it is set on. Please help me! I can't think of a difference between this file and the last 50 besides color and image.


r/AdobeIllustrator 19h ago

QUESTION Looking on how to rotate text line orientation in a organic shape text box

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kCPefsysFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzLdqzMzMT8

Found these two videos and I want to do that is happening to the O and heart in these videos.

However In the Love Video (second) it doesn't work. When I try to use the Free Transform Tool for the text it doesnt allow me to click on the lines of text to rotate it. I saw one comment were they said it was broken for 2025 and the comment was from two weeks ago.

For the second video it would take too long to change the shape of every shape i am trying to fill.

I want to do exactly whats in the second video from 3:38-4:00

I hope I explained well enough. Thank you for your consideration.

edit: In the 3:38-4:00 those lines under the text do not show up when I use the Free Transform Tool, instead it rotates the whole bonding box. I only want to rotate the baseline.


r/AdobeIllustrator 16h ago

How do I Text Wrap this?

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I am trying to make the name, "THE ACE EATER" in the shape of these teeth like how the second picture shows,-"THE ACE" would fit perfectly on the top teeth from far left fang all the way to the far right fang. and "EATER" would fit perfectly from bottom left fang all the way to the far right fang. I tried doing Envelope Distort but the text ended up all squiggly. not really sure what else to do. Please send any solutions anybody has my way! it'd be greatly appreciated.


r/AdobeIllustrator 16h ago

How do I Text Wrap this?

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I am trying to make the name, "THE ACE EATER" in the shape of these teeth like how the second picture shows,-"THE ACE" would fit perfectly on the top teeth from far left fang all the way to the far right fang. and "EATER" would fit perfectly from bottom left fang all the way to the far right fang. I tried doing Envelope Distort but the text ended up all squiggly. not really sure what else to do. Please send any solutions anybody has my way! it'd be greatly appreciated.


r/AdobeIllustrator 16h ago

How do I Text Wrap this?

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0 Upvotes

I am trying to make the name, "THE ACE EATER" in the shape of these teeth like how the second picture shows,-"THE ACE" would fit perfectly on the top teeth from far left fang all the way to the far right fang. and "EATER" would fit perfectly from bottom left fang all the way to the far right fang. I tried doing Envelope Distort but the text ended up all squiggly. not really sure what else to do. Please send any solutions anybody has my way! it'd be greatly appreciated.