Illustrator CS5

[handrawn]

To enquire from Handrawn is a silly thing to do...

forgive me my enthusiasm

handrawn is an Artist [with a capital A] and not a Designer [Graphic or otherwise] so he/she/it is going to look at things from that point of view; if this is atypical [here] so be it

the really nice thing about the bristle brushes, for me, is that they are stroked by a group of lines of varying levels of transparency - and that as you curve the line you get 'extra sweep' similar to a real brush [in principle]

this means, for example, that when the lines are reduced they still retain visual character, and do not become 'flat looking' in the way solid or single transparency strokes would - and all this is laid down in real time so it can be drawn freehand and spontaneously...

I think drawing in the style of JA might be a good example here Peter...

attached are some [default] stroke examples - there is a very useful amount of variation possible