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Editing the path outlines of an art brush - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Editing the path outlines of an art brush
In this exercise, I am going to show you how to modify the core path definitions associated specifically with an art brush, although this technique works just as well for scatter brushes. I've saved my progress as Minion Pro letters.ai, and I don't need those guidelines anymore, so I am going to press Ctrl+Semicolon, or Command+Semicolon on the Mac, to hide them. Now you may recall our big problem here is that this chalk brush traces unevenly around the letter, so sometimes it's quite heavy and other times it's so light as to be invisible. I can't see the chalk stroke in the top left corner of the U or the H and so on, so I need a more uniformly constructed stroke. I am going to go ahead and scroll my way to the top of the illustration--that is, above the top of the illustration, into the pasteboard--and I am going to turn on this patterns layer, just so that you can see that this is where I defined my tile patterns. So altogether there's four tile patterns in the Swatches panel:…
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Outlines along a path1m 13s
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Weaving a pattern throughout an illustration6m 24s
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Introducing the Brushes panel4m 21s
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Applying and editing a calligraphic brush8m 28s
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Applying and scaling art brushes6m 6s
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Applying and editing a scatter brush5m 29s
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Formatting and scaling brushed text5m 40s
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Editing the path outlines of an art brush6m 1s
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Replacing an existing art brush6m 46s
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Creating and refining an art brush8m 3s
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Tiling pattern vs. pattern brushes5m 12s
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Creating a pattern brush8m 20s
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Designing the perfect side pattern7m 1s
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Start, end, and corner tiles8m 58s
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Expanding and filling brush outlines6m 49s
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Text brushes vs. type on a path6m 55s
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Combining a text brush with the Width tool8m 43s
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Introducing the bristle brushes5m 43s
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Adjusting the hairs in a bristle brush5m 24s
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