: How to draw pressure lines in Illustrator with a Surface Pro I want to draw lines like the one located on the left side, but what I get when I try drawing are the lines located at the

@Holmes874

The effect you're aiming to get actually just looks like a pressure-sensitive brush stroke. May be someone could recreate that with a tablet, but it's really difficult to get those sharp edges by varying real pen pressure.

What you are to do with your path(s) selected:


First change "Brush Definition" to "Basic" (the drop-down on the right of my screenshot);
Than choose "Width Profile 1" in a "Variable Width Profile" drop-down (the one on the left).


That will make both edges go perfectly sharp

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