Creating ruching

One of the most time consuming things to draw on a flat is ruching.…I've watched students struggle, painstakingly draw every single little gather by…hand, when in actuality, it's much faster to create a brush.…It will take a little time to make the initial brush, but after that, you're good to go.…So, let's make a little gather brush, so I can add gathers to this flat.…I'm going to draw them next to the flat, so I can keep my scale consistent, so…that I don't have to scale the brush afterwards.…I'm going to create a gather brush that will make little gathers down at the…bottom of this part of my flat.…

Here's how I like to make gathers.…I'm really comfortable using the Pen Tool, so that's preference, and that's how…I'm going to do this first version.…Basically, it's just about clicking and dragging, and drawing a bunch of shapes…that resemble gathers, and here's how I do it.…Click, move up, click and drag to get a curve, and I always drag on a 45 degree angle.…Click to release the handle, and then move my Pen Tool down towards the bottom.…