Drawing with vectors

With Adobe Fresco, I can make art wherever I am, and quickly share it with others.

I'll show you how I use Vector brushes to create a line drawing, and how to create a custom color palette to paint it.

I made a pencil sketch in Fresco on iPad.

I saved it to my phone and then placed it into my document to use as a guide.

I'm going to zoom in and lower the Opacity on my sketch to make it easy, to trace the lines.

I want to use Basic round brush, but I need to adjust some settings.

I'm going to increase the Size and also apply some Smoothing to get nice, smooth strokes.

I can draw and preview the changes live in the Brush settings panel.

I also want to turn off Pressure and Velocity dynamics, so that my strokes have consistent width.

Now I can make my canvas full screen and start tracing with my finger.

Zooming in on each part of the drawing, helps me trace the lines as accurately as I can.

I can also rotate the canvas and draw at any angle.

It takes practice to get used to drawing with your finger on a small screen, but no worries, you can always use Undo and correct any mistakes.

Just tap with two fingers to undo and tap with three fingers to redo.

To draw faster use the Touch shortcut.

It's a little circle in the lower left corner of the screen.

You can turn it on under Settings if it's not already on.

With the Touch shortcut, I can quickly change my brush into an eraser.

I just need to hold it down while using the brush, or double tap it to lock it into its primary state.

I can make my brush smaller, zoom in, and quickly erase bumps and irregularities.

There is a way to draw straight lines in Fresco.

All you need is to turn on Snapline and hold to the end of your stroke to turn it into a straight line.

The Touch shortcut also helps to trim lines that overlap.

Just set it into its secondary state and cross over the unwanted parts.

You can always reuse parts of your drawing by duplicating your layers.

For example, I'm going to make a copy of the wings layer and then flip it horizontally.

Now when I finished drawing, I'm going to merge my layers into one, and duplicate it so that I can add colors to my outlines.

One of the ways to create a custom color palette is to pull colors from an image.

I'm going to use a stock image from my CC Libraries, and sample the colors from it, with the Eyedropper Tool.

I also want to save these colors to my swatches, to use again later.

You can save as many colors as you want and experiment with various color combinations.

Now that I have my custom color palette, I can quickly fill different parts of my drawing with different colors.

To make the Fill Tool work seamlessly, make sure there're no gaps between the lines.

That's it, I think it looks nice.

I'm ready to export my drawing as a PSD file and make further edits in Photoshop.