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Creating an organic pattern brush

Creating an organic pattern brush - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

Creating an organic pattern brush

- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie I'm going to answer a question sent in about creating a pattern brush in Illustrator. The person was struggling to get the artwork to align and work correctly, so we're going to create one from scratch and I'm going to show you how it's done, and some tips and tricks that are going to make it a lot easier for you. Now, in this case I wanted to create one that was more organic. Creating a geometric one using 90 degree angles is pretty simple once you see how in general you go about creating one that's far more complex, like this sketch here. Now, this is just a rough sketch that I just roughed out and created just to guide my general proportions. It isn't by any means precisely drawn, and in this case I didn't bother to even draw it out more precisely. I just used this as my guide, but the one important thing I want you to keep in mind are nesting shapes. Think squares and rectangles. So these are the exacting…

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