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Creating an organic pattern brush

Creating an organic pattern brush - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating an organic pattern brush

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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 So, a nesting shape's going to guide our building efforts, if you will. So, if I turn on my base vectors for this artwork, we'll lock this layer again, you can see how I've created these shapes just to go up, and it stops at this edge. Now I actually built this full shape so the entire shape looked like this. I just segmented it out for each section it goes into. So where it exits, the top of this straight area, is where it enters this part of the corner, and then where it exits that part of the corner, it has to align and enter into the next end cap in this case for the pattern brush. Now one thing to keep in mind is you want your artwork within these nesting shapes to be centralized, and what I mean centralized is they align through…

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