From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics: Linear Line Illustration

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Brushes for linear line illustrations

Brushes for linear line illustrations - Illustrator Tutorial

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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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