Here’s a little tip that I found quite useful to quickly get a bit of flavour (or flavor – whatever floats your boat) to an illustration. Typically, most software will keep to a single width setting when your working with the pen tool. When this happens, it can make the illustration look a bit clunky and unrefined, which kinda messes up what could be an awesome illustration.
Here’s two vectors that I want to show you the difference with. The vector on the bottom has some sort of fetish with the default line width, the other one has a variable line width on different objects.
Hopefully this creates an effect that makes different features stand out to make a better flow in the artwork. For example, the corners of the building are faintly marked out to show that there is some depth there, but the outline of the entire building uses a thick mark to make it stand out from the background.
Give it a go, and post links to the results in the comments!
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