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Here's a link to a pdf, you can open it in Illustrator and look at how the brush is made. If you have any questions, check back. I'd write a long-winded tutorial but I don't have time right now...
Note, that if you change the stroke color, the brush also changes color, that's because the brush color mode is set to "Tints" in the brush dialog. Double-click the brush in the palette to bring up the dialog.
If you select the gray art on the left (what I used to make the brush) there's an unstroked unfilled rectangle, that's what determines the "phase" of the brush.
HTH
Bert
Like this?
Here's a link to a pdf, you can open it in Illustrator and look at how the brush is made. If you have any questions, check back. I'd write a long-winded tutorial but I don't have time right now...
Note, that if you change the stroke color, the brush also changes color, that's because the brush color mode is set to "Tints" in the brush dialog. Double-click the brush in the palette to bring up the dialog.
If you select the gray art on the left (what I used to make the brush) there's an unstroked unfilled rectangle, that's what determines the "phase" of the brush.
HTH
Bert
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I couldn't believe when I saw the ribbons!!
There's nothing else I can tell besides:
THANK YOU, THANK YOU,THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
I spent a long time looking at the internet and nothing. This was exactly what I looking for.
Big starts for you!!!
There's nothing else I can tell besides:
THANK YOU, THANK YOU,THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
I spent a long time looking at the internet and nothing. This was exactly what I looking for.
Big starts for you!!!
11:
You're welcome. I gave a rather incomplete answer earlier, but thought you sounded like you needed the brush rather than a long tutorial.
I made a mistake, or rather left out the detail that the unstroked unfilled rectangle has to be the back most object of the brush.
Try this:
Draw a square, make it 1" wide and tall.
Copy (Ctrl-C). Paste in Front (Ctrl-F).
Scale 200% width, 100% height.
Direct-Select the right hand side anchors. Hit Ctrl-Alt-V (Average), Both (default).
Select the square, remove stroke and fill.
Fill the triangle with something nice, maybe a Fire Red. Stroke, hmmm, Black!
Select both, and drag the whole thing onto the Brushes palette. Now, a dialog comes up, make it a Pattern Brush, all default (except maybe set it for Tints in the color mode box).
Make some brush strokes. Note how your triangles overlay each other. Measure from one tip to the next, you'll find roughly 1", the brush "unit" length.
Bert
You're welcome. I gave a rather incomplete answer earlier, but thought you sounded like you needed the brush rather than a long tutorial.
I made a mistake, or rather left out the detail that the unstroked unfilled rectangle has to be the back most object of the brush.
Try this:
Draw a square, make it 1" wide and tall.
Copy (Ctrl-C). Paste in Front (Ctrl-F).
Scale 200% width, 100% height.
Direct-Select the right hand side anchors. Hit Ctrl-Alt-V (Average), Both (default).
Select the square, remove stroke and fill.
Fill the triangle with something nice, maybe a Fire Red. Stroke, hmmm, Black!
Select both, and drag the whole thing onto the Brushes palette. Now, a dialog comes up, make it a Pattern Brush, all default (except maybe set it for Tints in the color mode box).
Make some brush strokes. Note how your triangles overlay each other. Measure from one tip to the next, you'll find roughly 1", the brush "unit" length.
Bert
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