Hello !
I am new to Illustrator and am taking an Illustrator class. One of the excercises we are supposed to do is just tracing over a greyed-out image that is made up of one long brush stroke.
In other words, the idea is to start at one end of this long stroke and follow all the curves, not letting up on the mouse button till the end. As the title states, we are using the paintbrush for this.
Here is the issue I'm running into...I can only get about half way around this image before the brush quits putting out any color, even though I DO NOT let up on the mouse button! I
have tried and tried with the same result. So picture this...if you stretched this stroke out in a strait line, it might be 20 inches long, but i can only trace 10 inches of it before the paintbrush quits.
I have googled this to no avail. I am on a pc, but it is not just on one machine, as I have tried this on one Windows 8 desktop, a Windows 8 laptop, and a Windows 7 laptop, all using different mice as well. Both laptops have I7 chips with 4gigs of ram, and the desktop has a core 2 quad chip with 8 gigs of ram, so I dont think thats a problem. Just seems weird that its happening on all three machines.
Also, its not the file that Im tracing around either, because I can get the same result if I just open a new document and just start painting a long stroke....before too long it quits
This is happening in Illustrator CC. Class doesnt meet again for a week, so just thought I would ask here.
Thanks !
60LP