Creating cording

In this movie, I'm going to show you how to make a cording brush.…We're going to start with a line segment.…Go ahead and click on the Line Segment Tool, click on the page, and we're going…to draw a line segment that's 6 points long and a 45 degree angle. Click OK.…There it is.…You want to make sure that we have the line weight set to 0.25, the Stroke to…black, and the Fill to None.…Let's zoom in a little closer.…We're going to create sort of a fancy shape out of this.…So, switch to the Convert Anchor Point Tool, click and hold on the top anchor…point. Hold down your Shift key, and drag to the right to create a curve.…

Holding the Shift key is going to help you keep your mouse and the handles…constrained, so you won't rock like this.…So, make sure you hold on to the Shift key, so you stay constrained, and you want…to drag the curve out like that.…Release the mouse, and then release your Shift key.…Now we're going to do the same thing for the bottom one.…Click on the anchor point to press the Shift key, and drag to the right, and then…