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- [Instructor] In this movie,

we'll take our first swing



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at applying and modifying art

brushes inside illustrator.



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And I'll make no bones about it,



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art brushes are, by far, my favorite.



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In my opinion, they do the best job



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of combining flexibility

along with reliability.



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And you can get some really

fun, predictable results.



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So I'm going to start things off

by clicking on this point text



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with the black arrow tool.



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And then I'll go over here

to the Appearance panel



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and click on that orange fill.



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And then I'll drop down to

the Add New Stroke icon,



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in the bottom right corner

of the Appearance panel.



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Or, again, you have that keyboard shortcut



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of Control, Alt, Slash, here on the PC.



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Or, Command, Options, Slash, on the Mac.



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Alright, now, so far this

is just your plane, old,



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everyday, average stroke.



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I want you to notice that

it has a line weight value



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to show you that it's altogether uniform.



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Next, I'll bring up my Brushes panel.



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And I'll drop down to this guy right here,



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hand drawn brush vector pack 02.



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Although, of course, you can

assign any brush you'd like.



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Now this is an art brush.



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Meaning that the brush is

getting stretched around



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the outline of each and

every character of type.



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Now notice, over here

in the Appearance panel,



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that instead of seeing

a line weight value,



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we see the brush itself.



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And if you were to click it,



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you would bring up a little

mini-panel of brushes,



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so that you can quickly and

easily change your mind.



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Alright, now I want these white strokes



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to be set against a

larger orange background.



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So I'll once again click on the fill



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and add yet another new stroke.



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And this time I'm going to

change the color of the stroke



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to that same shade of orange

that I'm using for the fill.



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And, then, I'll go ahead and

select a different brush.



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And it could be something truly wacky



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like this guy right here,



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hand drawn brush vector pack 03.



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In which case, we'll

get this radical effect.



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And what I just love about

being able to apply art brushes



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so quick and easily to display type,



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is that you can take a

font like Myriad Pro,



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that everybody uses all the time,



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and you can turn it into

something quite unique.



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Alright, but I don't really

want that much craziness.



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So I'm going to go ahead and

switch to this guy right here,



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Chalk - Round.



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Which will give us this

fairly muted effect.



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Now the problem with it, is

that it's not thick enough.



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And so there's a few ways



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to adjust the thickness of an art brush.



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One is to double click in

the actual brush definition,



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here inside the Brushes panel.



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Which is going to bring up a

huge dialogue box of options.



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And it's going to change the behavior



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of this brush in the future.



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Or you can just go ahead and drop down



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to this little dialogue box,



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at the bottom of the Brushes panel,



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and click on it.



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And, that way, you can just

make some local adjustments.



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Make sure you turn on the Preview checkbox



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so you can see what you're doing.



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And then crank up this

percentage value right here.



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So if I wanted to make this

brush twice as thick as usual,



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I would take this value up to 200 percent.



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Now, notice that that's

just going to effect



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the width of the stroke.



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If you want to effect

the brush proportionally,



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that is, you don't want to stretch it,



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you want to scale its height and width,



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relative to the path outline,



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then you turn on this

Proportional checkbox.



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Now, in our case, that's not

even remotely what we want.



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And I'd have to take the value down



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to well less than a 100 percent



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in order to get anything that looks nice.



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Now the one time you

might use this checkbox



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is if you're working with a

representational piece of art.



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So, imagine that your brush

looked like a dolphin.



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Because you can have multicolor

art brushes if you want.



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In which case, you can

use the path outline



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in order to wiggle the dolphin around.



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Presumably, you wouldn't

want to stretch it, however.



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So, in that case, you

would turn on Proportional.



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But for your standard,

everyday, average brushes,



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that's not at all what you want.



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Here's another way to work,

and a much easier way.



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I'll go ahead and cancel out of here.



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You can just go ahead and

change the line weight.



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Now if the line weight

is set to one point,



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then the brush will be

a 100 percent thick.



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If you change it to two points,



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it'll be 200 percentness thick.



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If you change it to one point 1.6,



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that's the same as 160 percent and so on.



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In my case, I'm just going to take it up



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to two points, like so.



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At which point, I want you to notice



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that we've got a problem here.



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Notice that the art brush

and the fill do not match.



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And that's because, if you take

a close look at this brush,



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here inside the Brushes panel,



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you'll see that it's

not a 100 percent black.



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It's a weak black that's

designed for a CMYK document



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and it's set to a 100 percent

black and nothing more.



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Fortunately, we can fix this problem



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by, once again, clicking

on this dialogue box icon



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at the bottom of the Brushes panel.



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And, then, notice Colorization

Method right there.



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If you want to learn more about it,



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and, in my opinion, be more confused,



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then you can click on this

little Tips icon there.



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Or you can just listen to my advice.



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If you set it to None,



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then you're not going to

colorize the brush at all.



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At which point, I think you can see



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that this is a weak black.



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If you want the color

to exclusively brighten,



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which would work great for an RGB black,



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then you set it to Tints.



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But for a CMYK black, that's

going to lighten things up.



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If you want it to lighten and darken,



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then you go with Tints and Shades.



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And, for what it's worth,

Adobe almost always



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uses the term Tints for lightening

and Shades for darkening.



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In which case, we're going to

get this effect right here,



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which, obviously, is not what we want.



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And so to clear things up,

what we want is Hue Shift.



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Which is just going to shift the hue



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without brightening or darkening,



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at least where a black brush is concerned.



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And, so, having solved the problem,



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I'll go ahead and click OK.



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Alright, now I want to add

a little bit of excitement



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to the Calligraphic Brush.



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And one way to do that, obviously,



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would be to select it and change

it to an art brush instead.



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So I could select Charcoal, for example,



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and get yet another interesting effect.



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That's not what I want though.



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What I want to do, instead,

is wiggle the stroke.



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And I'm going to do that by

applying a dynamic effect.



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So, with that Calligraphic Brush selected,



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I'll go ahead and hide the Brushes panel,



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just so that we have a better idea



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of what's going on onscreen.



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And then I'll go to the Effect menu,



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choose Distort & Transform,

and choose Roughen.



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And, now, I'm going to go ahead



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and change the Size value to three.



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But I don't want three

percent, I want three points.



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So I'll select the

Absolute radio button here.



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And I'll turn on the Preview checkbox,



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so you can actually see what's going on.



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Then I'll take this Detail value



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down to eight wiggles per inch.



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And I'll change the Points

from Corner to Smooth,



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in order to smooth things

out ever so slightly.



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And then I'll click OK, in

order to accept that change.



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And that, friends, is our first look



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at the wonderful world of art brushes



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here inside Illustrator.