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Create a more sophisticated brush

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Create a more sophisticated brush

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One of the great things to do in Illustrator when working with art brushes, is to combine art brushes to create a more complex art brush. You can layer in multiple brushes for great results. Combining brushes and even using brushes within brushes, can make for an efficient an streamline workflow. Here we'll take a few of the brushes that we already made, and we'll use a couple of new ones, and we'll use them to build a more sophisticated brush. We're going to create a jellyfish brush. You probably recognize the half circle brush and also the tentacle brush. I've modified a couple of these slightly so that I have several different version of tentacles. And I made a couple of additional piece of artwork that we're going to use for the jellyfish brush. I've already turned this all into art brushes. And they're using a variety of colorization methods that will allow us to create the full jellyfish art brush, and have it look…

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