You knew this was coming given my predilection for all things macabre and creepy, well maybe you didn’t. In any case, to celebrate the imminent yearly arrival of Halloween, I would like to present a tutorial inspired by John Schwegel’s illustration style, specifically his Zombie Pumpkin. The focus of the tutorial, aside from creating a ghoulish squash, is to introduce the use of Illustrator’s Width Tool (Shift+W) that was introduced with the release of CS5. Using the Width Tool will allow those of you without a tablet to create variable-width line work in your vector illustrations using only a mouse or trackpad.

Source: illustrationtoolbox.com