From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics: Linear Line Illustration
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Brushes for linear line illustrations - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics: Linear Line Illustration
Brushes for linear line illustrations
When you create your linear line designs, it's all about forming a stroke that creates one continuous line that wraps around itself and intertwines with itself to form whatever the theme is that you're creating. Now that's great. There's a lot of different usages that I'll be showing you later in this course that show how to use this style in a diverse range of ways but, at times, if you leave it as a stroke, it's too clean and too perfect and sometimes, you might want to get more organic with it. More hand drawn, hand crafted, if you will, and much like you took a piece of chalk or a crayon and you drew the same style of drawing, being one continuous line but it has a more distressed quality to it. So one way you can do this is by using pattern brushes in Adobe Illustrator. So to create my base art, in this case this, you can see it right here at the top, I created this using a grease pencil and a grease pencil is just a black greasy type of lead. Car dealerships usually use larger…
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Building a simple linear line illustration7m 46s
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Building a complete linear line illustration5m 27s
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Shape building a linear line illustration5m 13s
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Vector welding5m 53s
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Linear line aesthetics: Tips and tricks7m 43s
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Coloring linear artwork5m 18s
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Brushes for linear line illustrations9m 10s
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Neon effects for linear line illustrations5m 16s
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Thick and thin linears6m 16s
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Symmetry and linears9m 42s
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Motion and movement in linears5m 59s
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