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- In this movie we'll draw
the slender, organic shapes

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that will ultimately
make up the purple brush.

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Alright, I'm going to start things off

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by turning off this palette layer,

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because we're done with it for the moment.

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And then I'll drop down
to the little page icon

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at the bottom of the Layers panel

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and I'll alt or opt + click on it

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to bring up the Layer Options dialog box.

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And I'll call this layer brush parts,

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and then I'll change the
Color to let's say Violet,

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and click OK.

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Alright, now I'll grab the Curvature Tool.

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Again, it has a keyboard
shortcut of shift + ~.

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And now I'm going to click at
the very bottom of the brush

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like so to create my first smooth point.

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And now I'll click right
about, let's say here,

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just to the right of
the vertical guide line

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in order to add what looks
like a straight segment so far

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until I start bending it of course.

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And then I'll click right about there

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on that metal portion

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and I'll click right here at
the bottom of the bristles.

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And obviously these are the wrong

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fill and stroke attributes,

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so because my fill is active

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I'll just press the /
key to change it to None.

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And then I'll change the line weight value

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up here to 4 points.

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And as you can see I can
continue to do this kind of stuff

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as I work on my path outline.

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Now I'll click on the
right side of the bristles

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and then I'll alt or
option + click at the top

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in order to create a
nice, sharp corner point.

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Alright, now I'll just
try to do the same thing

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down the right side of the brush here.

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And I'm trying to make
symmetrical choices.

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Although it's kind of hard to do that

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at an angle such as this.

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And then finally I'll just
click on that first point

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in order to close the path outline.

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Now obviously these aren't
exactly the right points,

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so I'm going to create
another point right there

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and drag it inward.

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Now I'm going to create one on this side,

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and notice that I'm working
inside the hole of the palette,

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and I'll drag it inward.

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And there's nothing
significant about that,

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it's just that if you're following along

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I want you to see what I'm doing.

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Now I discovered that
these points right here

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weren't absolutely necessary

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and they were actually creating problems,

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so I'll go ahead and select this one

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and press the backspace key,
or the delete key on a Mac,

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to get rid of it.

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And you can see now I can
modify exactly how that thing

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is going to line up there

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by either dragging this
guy up here in the bristles

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or this guy right here on
the side of the handle.

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And so in other words this point

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serves as a kind of fulcrum,

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although I might want to move
it out a little bit as well.

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And so I'll grab this guy,

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just to make sure I'm
making the same decisions,

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and press the backspace key,
or the delete key on a Mac,

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to get rid of it.

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And then I'll move this
point out a little bit,

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as you can see, and
I'll move this one over

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and down and in, that might help,

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in order to maintain as
smooth an effect as possible.

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And this is looking
pretty darn good to me.

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And what's nice about it is

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I didn't add any points accidentally,

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which sometimes happens.

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So you just have to be
vigilant to make sure

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that Illustrator isn't adding more points

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to your path than you want.

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Alright, now I'm going to
zoom in on this metal area

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and I'm going to surround it
with a different path outline.

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And so I'm going to start things off

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just by clicking four times like so

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in order to add a bunch of
points around this region.

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And then I'm going to convert
them all to corner points

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by double-clicking on each
and every one like so.

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And you might ask, well,
why am I drawing them first

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and then converting them?

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And the reason is just this time around

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I prefer to work that way.

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Alright, I'm going to move these guys down

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and inward like so,

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and then I'm going to create
a new point right here

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and drag it up, so that we
have this nice arc right there

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at the bottom of the bristles.

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And now I'll move these
guys down and in as well.

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And I'll go ahead and click here

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to add another smooth point,

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and I'll drag it up to add another arc.

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And if I want it to bend a little more

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then I would take these
corner points down like so.

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Alright, now let's tear things apart

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using the Shape Builder Tool,

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but I don't want to ruin
these original path outlines,

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so I'm going to go ahead and
make a copy of this layer

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by clicking on the fly out menu icon

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in the upper right corner
of the Layers panel,

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and choosing Duplicate brush parts.

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And then I'll double-click on
an empty portion of that layer

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to bring up the Layer Options dialog box.

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And I'll go ahead and
call this guy paintbrush

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and I'll change its Color to Gold.

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And then I'll click OK.

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Alright, now I'll turn off

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the brush parts layer to protect it,

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and I'll select everything on this layer,

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the paintbrush layer,

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by clicking in its upper
right corner right there,

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where that little triangular wedge is,

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and then I'll grab my Shape Builder Tool.

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And I'll go ahead and double-click

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on the central portion there,

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I'll double-click on the bristles,

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and I'll double-click
on the handle as well,

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just to make sure everything's divided up.

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And then I'll press the V key

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to switch to the black arrow tool.

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I'll click off the path
outlines to deselect them.

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And I'll go ahead and click on this guy

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and shift + click on this one

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and press the backspace key,

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or the delete key on a
Mac, to get rid of them.

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Alright, now I'll go ahead and click

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on the bristles shape right there

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and I'm going to change its
fill to this shade of brown,

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the one that begins R =117,

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and then I'll click on the handle,

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and I'll change it to the shade of purple

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that begins with R 102.

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Alright, now I'm going to press ctrl + 0,

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or cmd + 0 on a Mac, to center my zoom.

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And I'll click off the
paths to deselect them.

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And that my friends is how you create

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some slender, organic forms

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using a combination of the Curvature Tool

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along with the Shape Builder

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here inside Illustrator.