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- [Instructor] In this

movie, I'll introduce you



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to the brushes panel and we'll

see examples of each of the



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five kinds of brushes you can

create inside Illustrator.



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Now for those of you who are

interested in following along



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with the project, we're going

to start with this very basic



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piece of artwork here, and

we're going to turn it into



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this fully blown piece of fabric art.



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And with the exception

of a single tile pattern,



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which I'll show you how to

create in the very next chapter,



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everything you're seeing

is a function of brushes,



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even this text up here at the

top and bottom of the artwork.



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Alright so, there's a couple of ways



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to use brushes inside Illustrator.



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One is to use the Paintbrush Tool.



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And if you followed along

with the fundamentals course,



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you may recall that I switched

the keyboard shortcuts



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between the Blob Brush,

which I quite prefer,



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and the Paintbrush Tool.



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So that's just something bear in mind.



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And then you want to go

up to the control panel



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and click on this middle menu right here



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and select whatever brush

it is you want to use.



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In my case, I'm going to grab

one I've created in advance,



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which is called 30 point pressure.



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Now you also want to note that



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you're going to paint in the stroke color.



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So I'm going to go ahead and

click on the second swatch here,



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and change it to white, so I

end up painting with white.



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I'm also going to turn

off the big type layer,



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just so it doesn't get in the way.



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Now I happen to be armed

with a Wacom Cintiq



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with a pressure-sensitive

stylus, which is a screen



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that you can paint directly on.



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And I'll just go ahead and

paint a brush stroke here.



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And right now I'm painting very

light, but if I press harder



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I will end up creating a

thicker brush stroke like so.



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And so for those of you who like to draw



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that is one way to work.



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But brushes are actually

much more flexible



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than just the Paintbrush Tool.



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You can apply them to any path outline



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you can create inside Illustrator.



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And so I'm just going to press the V key



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to switch back to my black arrow tool.



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And I'll click on this

path outline to select it,



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and then I'll just

press the Backspace key,



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or the Delete key on the

Mac, to get rid of it.



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And I'll bring back my

type, and then I'll go ahead



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and click on this path outline

that I've created in advance.



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And now let's say you want to

apply a brush stroke to it,



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then you can go up to

this side and once again,



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this middle menu, up here

in the control panel.



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Or you can bring up the

dedicated brushes panel by going



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to the Window menu and

choosing the Brushes command.



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And notice it has a

keyboard shortcut of F5,



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which is the very same shortcut

at work inside Photoshop.



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Alright so, I'll go ahead

and bring out my brushes.



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And things start off up here at the top



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with the calligraphic brushes.



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And so I could apply that

same one that I brushed in



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a moment ago, just by clicking on it.



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Now in this case, we're

working with a path



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that I created with the Pen Tool,



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so there's no pressure information,



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but as we'll see in a future movie



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you can simulate pressure

using the Width tool.



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Alright the next set of brushes,



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so these guys right here,

the Scatter Brushes.



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And so notice if I click on

this 3D Geometric 2 item,



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that I will see a series of objects



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that are scattered along the path outline.



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So there's space between the objects.



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We're seeing them actually

at different angles,



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and they're scattered to various distances



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toward and away from the path outline.



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Now the next item, Basic,

is actually no brush,



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and so if you click on it,



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you're going to reestablish

a uniform brush stroke.



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So you're going to

actually remove the brush



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from the path outline.



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Next we have a long list of

what are known as Art Brushes,



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and these are my favorite

variety of brush.



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What they allow you to

do is stretch one or more



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path outlines along the

length of another path.



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And so if I were to apply this guy here,



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Grunge Brush Vector Path

01, then I would create



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what appears to be an organic brush stroke



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here inside the vector-based

world of Illustrator.



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So these things are very flexible indeed.



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Alright, I'm going to bring

back the Brushes panel,



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and I'm going to scroll down

to the next type of brush,



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which is the Bristle Brush.



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Bristle Brush is sort of designed



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to emulate real world brushes.



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They work best when you combine them



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with the Paintbrush tool and

a pressure-sensitive stylus,



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but you can apply them to

standard path outlines as well.



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And what we really have now

is a collection of paths



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set to different opacity levels



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that are all combined with one another.



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And then finally, we've

got Pattern Brushes.



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And so if I click on this

one right here, African,



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you can see it applies a repeating pattern



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across the length of the path outline.



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Now some kinds of

brushes are going to work



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along with the current path color.



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Others aren't, as in the

case of this pattern brush.



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But they all respond to the line weight.



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So if I wanted to make this path thicker,



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all I would have to do is

take that line weight value



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up to for example, three

points, and I would end up



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with a bigger pattern, as

we're seeing right here.



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Now the other thing to know

about brushes is just as



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with swatches, they're saved

along with the active document.



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But if you want to access more

of them, all you have to do



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is click on the Libraries icon

down here on the bottom left



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corner of the panel, and then

choose one of these libraries,



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such as Bristle Brush.



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And then just go ahead and

click on a desired item



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in order to not only apply it

to the active path outline,



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but also permanently add

it to your Brushes panel,



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after which point, assuming you're done



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with this floating panel, you

can go ahead and close it.



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And for the most part,

that's exactly what I did



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in order to assemble

this long list of brushes



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that are included along with this file.



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And that is my introduction

to the Brushes panel,



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as well as the five kinds of brushes,



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Calligraphic, Scatter,

Art, Bristle, and Pattern,



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that are available to you

here inside Illustrator.