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Creating with scatter brushes

Creating with scatter brushes - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating with scatter brushes

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- [Von] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie, we're going to use one of Illustrator's most powerful features, a scatter brush to create some artistic results. So, let's jump right into it. Now, if you're not familiar with what a scatter brush is, it takes any artwork, such as these two examples shown here and this is just simply a little grainy kind of piece of artwork on the left I created in Photoshop, brought it into Illustrator, image traced it, and kind of cleaned it up a little bit. The other one to the right here is a splatter image I created with an old toothbrush and India ink, once again, scanned it in, image traced it, and now it's just simply black and white artwork that we can create a scatter brush from, and that's exactly what I did. If I drag the Brushes palette over here, you can see these two brushes inside the Brushes palette here, and if I click into this first one, you can see the preview of the artwork here and all a scatter brush does is,…

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