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Brushes and width profiles

Brushes and width profiles - Illustrator Tutorial

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Brushes and width profiles

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Similarly to the symbols that we talked about in the previous video you can turn anything in Illustrator into a brush. Let me demonstrate this to you. I am going to draw a circle with the ellipse tool and I'm just going to set it up with a color and then drag and drop it into the brushes panel. Now there's these five main categories or types of brushes you can create and depending on what you drop into the brushes panel it will give you different options but a shape like this could be either saved as a scatter art or pattern brush. I'm just going to go with the pattern brush and click OK and you will see straight away how it's going to look like and if I wanted to space them out a bit I could just increase the spacing percentage here maybe to 50% and then let's click OK. Now I can just select any objects in Illustrator and apply the brush on it or of course I can use it in combination with tools like the Paintbrush tool. So if I paint with this I will be able to draw the circles along…

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