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Defining a two-stroke dot pattern

Defining a two-stroke dot pattern - Illustrator Tutorial

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Defining a two-stroke dot pattern

I've saved my progress as Base dashes.ai found inside the 07_fill_stroke folder, and we are going to take this circle that appears behind the brown circles. So if you're having problems getting to it by the way, go to the Layers panel, scroll your way down and you should see a path just above Eggs right there. Why don't we call this one, I'll go ahead and rename it dashes so that we can keep track of it, click OK and then you can meatball that guy in order to modify it. Anyway, we are going to take this dashed outlined here and we are going to turn it into a series of white circles with black outlines, and here's how we'll do it. Go to Appearance once again, go ahead and click on Stroke. It's already 22 points thick, that's exactly what we want and I'm going to switch my Cap to Round Cap so that I am adding rounded ends to each one of my dashes. Now to turn those rounded ends into exact circles, because bear in mind, here's what you've got. You've got a half circle on one side of the…

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