Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Adding a white buffer zone to a pattern brush, part of Illustrator CC 2013 One-on-One: Mastery.
In this movie, I'll show you how to create a variation…on our pattern brush that includes a little bit of a…white buffer that will help to distinguish the brush from a…potential fill pattern, as in the case of this big, rustic W.…So I'll switch to our drawing so far, and then I'll…press Shift+page down in order to advance to the second artboard.…I want to go ahead and lock this guy down, so…I'll click on the path outline in order to select it,…and I'll go up to the Object menu, choose…Lock and choose Selection, or you could just press Ctrl+2.…
Or Cmd+2 on the Mac.…And then I'll just help to protect that shape.…Then I'll grab these guys and I'll drag em up to about…here let's say, just to give myself some more room to work.…And I'll marquee this bottom group of paths…and I'll drag em down while pressing the Shift…and Alt keys or Shift and Opt key on the Mac in order to clone those paths.…Alright, now I'll go ahead and zoom in on the selection like so.…And I'm going to press the Shift key…and marquee the tops of these invisible rectangles.…
Author
Deke McClelland
Updated
10/2/2014Released
10/22/2013- Using symbols to streamline changes or simulate master pages
- Creating shadows, depth, and volume with gradient meshes
- Controlling transparency and visibility with opacity masks
- Warping and distorting artwork with Liquify and Envelope Distort
- Assembling a seamless pattern brush for repeated elements
- Making charts and graphs from imported data
- Creating dynamic 3D effects
Skill Level Advanced
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Introduction
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Welcome to One-on-One1m 54s
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33. Using Smart Guides
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The smartest of guides1m 36s
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34. Working with Symbols
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Creating and naming symbols6m 42s
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Introducing 9-slice scaling4m 31s
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35. Gradient Mesh
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Creating a gradient mesh4m 23s
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36. Opacity Masks
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Introducing opacity masks6m 24s
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37. Liquify and Envelope
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Introducing the Warp tool7m 50s
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38. Free Transform and Touch Type
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Resetting the bounding box4m 37s
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Using the Touch Type tool5m 12s
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39. Pattern Brushes
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40. Charts and Pictographs
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41. 3D Effects
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Conclusion
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See ya1m 10s
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