And so, in this movie, I'm going to give you a couple of ways to do that. Let's go to the File menu here, choose New. Just create any document, doesn't matter how big or how small.

illustrator cc blob brush size

You can apply these brushes directly with the Paintbrush tool and can even apply them to existing paths. If you make an adjustment to an underlying path, the appearance of the brush updates accordingly. Although this "live" behavior has many benefits, you don't have access to the actual art that these brushes create until you expand them. For certain types of illustration, the ability to fine-tune and edit brush strokes is very important. In fact, many illustrators in the past have used a variety of Calligraphic and Art brushes to create their art, only to expand the brushes and combine them with Pathfinder commands so that they could edit the art more effectively.