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Creating an organic pattern brush

Creating an organic pattern brush - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

Creating an organic pattern brush

(air whishing) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. There is some features in Illustrator that in my opinion don't get used enough. One of them is pattern brushes. So, we're going to look at how you can utilize this simple feature to create some pretty cool effects. So, let's get started. We're going to quickly review how to create a pattern brush. It really isn't hard at all. If you look at this line here. Think of this as a stroke. Any stroke within a design and you want to apply a pattern brush to it. Now, a pattern brush is just that. It's a pattern, but it's applied like a brush to a stroke in Illustrator. Now, when you create a pattern, all it has to do is repeat seamlessly from left to right. Top and bottom doesn't matter on a pattern brush. It just needs to repeat from left and right, and so, this the artwork we're going to use here, and if I go ahead and create a box that goes from anchor point to the other anchor point like this on this shape and I…

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