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Using brushes to create a twisted pair of wires in Illustrator

Using brushes to create a twisted pair of wires in Illustrator

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Using brushes to create a twisted pair of wires in Illustrator

- This week as you can see we're in Illustrator. We'll do a little, uh, brush in Illustrator. Very specific little brush it's gonna do some nice effects for us. Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a little twisted pair of wires. A twisted pair. That means little wires that are just wrapped around each other, that you find in so many appliances and everywhere else. So that's a little twisted pair. So I'm gonna get a little closer here so we can see how we're gonna create our little brush. Now I'm gonna go in here and get my pen tool, I'm gonna click, uh, right here, click and drag and I'm gonna hold on to my shift key to constrain it. So straight across just like that. I'll come over here and click another one right there and pull it straight across. Right there, that's good. Now I'm gonna go in there and manipulate these just a little bit. Just bring this one out a little more. And extend it ever so slightly. So it has a little more of a curve to it. So now, this one is gonna…

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