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Painting with bristle brushes - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Mastery
Painting with bristle brushes
- [Instructor] Alright so we spend a movie a piece on calligraphic and scatter brushes. I've spent several movies on art brushes. We'll look at pattern brushes in detail in the next chapter. When we talk about seamlessly repeating patterns which is why I figured I'd be remiss if I didn't spend at least one movie on bristle brushes. Now bristle brushes which are the fifth brush type are specifically designed for that person who's comfortable with a drawing tablet and a pressure sensitive stylists. Otherwise they have limited use. But let's say you're that person, in that case I'll go ahead and bring up the brush panel and notice that this document does contain a few bristle brushes down here toward the bottom. I'm going to go ahead and create a new one by clicking on the little page icon at the bottom of the panel and I'll select bristle brush and then click. So you don't have to have anything selected in advance. Rather you're…
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Painting with path outlines1m 12s
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Introducing the Brushes panel6m 11s
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Applying and editing a calligraphic brush7m 4s
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Scaling and colorizing art brushes7m 4s
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Applying and customizing scatter brushes6m 25s
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Formatting and editing brushed type4m 29s
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Designing your own custom art brushes7m 46s
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Creating and testing your art brushes6m 23s
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Refining a brush to fit ends and corners5m 27s
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Expanding, filling, and stroking a brush7m 54s
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Type On A Path tool vs. text as an art brush7m 43s
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Distorting art type with the Width tool10m 3s
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Infusing your artwork with a pattern5m 30s
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Painting with bristle brushes8m 50s
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