From the course: Illustrator: Creating Custom Brushes
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Calligraphic brush overview - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Creating Custom Brushes
Calligraphic brush overview
The calligraphic brush allows you to create a brush that mimics writing with a calligraphy brush. The calligraphic brush creates a brushstroke that looks like it was scribed by an ink pen or paint brush. With a calligraphic brush, you can define a nib or a pen point. I'm going to go in my brush library, and I'm going to load some of the preset calligraphic brushes. Again, if we to the wing menu, open brush library, artistic, and go to artistic calligraphic, it's going to load a number of preset brushes. If I select strokes that I've already created in my document and change the brush, you can see how the artwork is going to update according to the new brush that I've specified. And once I've picked a new brush, it's going to be added into my brush library. Sometimes the brush that you've selected might not be the size that you want. The way that the brushstroke is applied to the artwork not only has to do with the brush…
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