From the course: Illustrator: Creating Custom Brushes
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Create an overlapping pattern brush - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Creating Custom Brushes
Create an overlapping pattern brush
- [Instructor] Sometimes you'll want to create artwork that overlaps. You can control this by using the bounding box feature that we looked at in the previous movie. All pattern brushes have the unfilled, unstroked, rectangular path that controls the spacing of the tiles. If you don't create one as part of the original artwork, it is created automatically when you define the brush. Here, I have two different shapes that have already turned into pattern brushes, and this is what they look like when being applied to a circle. We're going to modify the bounding box so that we can see how we can modify this artwork. I'll go ahead and I'll get my rectangular tool. I'm going to make sure I have no stroke and no fill, and I'm going to draw a bounding box. For this first bounding box, we're going to make it slightly smaller than the almond shape. I'm also going to select both the almond shape and the bounding box and align them…
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