Drawing freely in Illustrator?

I want to be able to use the pencil tool, similar to how it is used in Photoshop to create like, a character to ink over the top of. I do not know how to change the settings to include pressure for the pencil tool for my Wacom. Help?
This is an example of what I'm looking for. I asked the author of the video this question with no reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMj6zKRECvU&feature=relmfu
Thanks-

That video shows a brush stroke applied. You can get better results using brushes. Pressure settings are not available for the pencil, but they are for brushes. That video isn't using pressure settings because the Pencil Tool is being used. He/She simply has an articic grey brush set to apply when drawing.

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