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- [Instructor] In this

movie, I'll show you how you,



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yes you, can create your

own custom art brush



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that's actually going to

work better than the one



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we've assigned so far, and to

see what I'm talking about,



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I'll go ahead and zoom in

to the top of the H here,



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at the top right corner, and

notice that certain parts



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of that orange art brush, which

goes by the name chalk round



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as you may recall, certain

parts of it look pretty good



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and then certain parts

of it just disappear,



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as in the case of the top right corner,



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and then other areas exhibit

weird divots and holes,



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and that's partially a

function of the fact that



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the chalk brush has a lot of

edge detail associated with it



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but we're also running

up against the point



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at which the H begins and ends.



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Now every single path outline,

whether it's open or closed,



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has a beginning and ending point.



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In the case of an open path,



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you have a very obvious beginning point



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and an obvious end point,



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but in the case of a closed path,



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there's just a point somewhere

along the path outline



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where things begin and end,

and in the case of the H,



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it happens to be up here.



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For the other letters, its

occurs in different positions,



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such as this bottom right

point in the C and so forth.



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So what we need to do is

create a custom art brush



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that's going to do a better job for us.



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So I'm going to go ahead

and turn off the base



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and big type letters for a moment,



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and then I'll click on that big type layer



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and I'll create a new layer,

either by alt + clicking



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on the little page icon at the

bottom of the Layers panel,



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that's an option + click on the Mac,



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or if you loaded d.keys and

you want to do it entirely



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from the keyboard, you can

press control + shift + alt + l,



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that's command + shift

+ option + l on the Mac.



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Either way, you'll bring up

the Layer Options dialog box



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and I'll go ahead and

call this guy chalk alts



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because these are going to be alternatives



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on the existing chalk brush,



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and then I'll just go

ahead and change the color



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to let's say violet and click OK.



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All right, now you want to

bring up the Brushes panel



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and then notice this guy

right here, Chalk - Round.



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Go ahead and grab him

and drag him and drop him



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into the document window.



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And I'm going to go ahead

and zoom in on this guy.



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Actually, if I had left him selected,



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I could have zoomed in by

pressing control + plus



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or command + plus on the

Mac and centered it as well.



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In any event, here's my guy,

and notice that he appears



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inside of a transparent rectangle.



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Well, here's why.



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I'll go up to the View menu

and choose Smart Guides



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in order to turn my smart

guides on, and then,



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I'll just grab my line segment tool



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and I'll make sure it's

aligned with the beginning



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and the ending of that rectangle,



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so it's the entire width of the rectangle,



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as we're seeing right here.



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I'll go ahead and switch

back to the black arrow tool,



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which I can get by pressing the v key.



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I'll make sure that outline is selected,



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and then I'll change its line weight



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up here in the control panel to one point,



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and no notice if I click the word Basic



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up here in the control panel

and I switch to chalk round,



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that I get an effect that's

exactly the same size.



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So that transparent

rectangle helps to determine



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the relative size of the brush



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with respect to the path outline.



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All right, I don't need that guy,



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so I'll just press the

backspace key or the delete key



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to get rid of it, and now I'll go ahead



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and click on this object

to select, and you can see



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on the far left side of the

control panel that it's a group.



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Well, it's actually more than a group.



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If I twirl the layer open,



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you can see that I've got this group here.



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I'll twirl it open.



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I've got another group inside of it,



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and then if I twirl that

open, there's the brush,



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which is expressed as a group, by the way,



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as well as that invisible rectangle.



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And so I'm just going to grab

these guys, click on one,



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shift + click on the other, and drag 'em



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outside of the top group,



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and two extra groups will just go away.



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And one of the things

I want to show you here



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is how this guy is not

filled with rich black.



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So notice it's selected.



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If I click on the first swatch,

which represents the fill,



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we are not seeing black selected,



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and so if you watch very closely,



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it may appear in the video,

you may be able to see



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the black darken up, at which point,



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we have the kind of black

shape we're really looking for



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where art brushes that you

hope to colorize are concerned.



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All right, in any event,

I don't want this brush.



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What I want is the invisible rectangle.



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So I'll go ahead and select it,



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and then I'll want to move it

down and well as duplicate it.



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So with the black arrow selected,



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I'll just press the enter key



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or the return key on the

Mac, and as you can see,



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my horizontal value is zero,

my vertical value is 30 points,



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at which I'll click the Copy button



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to copy that path outline.



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All right, now I need another path



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in order to express the brush itself,



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so I'll press control + c, control + f,



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that's command + c, command + f,



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in order to paste the copy of

the shape in front of itself



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and then I'll change the

fill once again to black.



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We do not want a stroke.



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All right, now I'm going

to roughen this shape up



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by going up to the Effect Menu,

choosing Distort & Transform



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and choosing the Roughen

command, and this time around,



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I came up with a size value,



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because this is a very small

shape, of just two points,



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and because this is a small shape,



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I'm going to go with a small

size value initially of 2%,



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and I'll go ahead and turn

on the Preview checkbox



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so we can see what that looks like.



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I really want two points so

I'll select this Absolute option



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right there, and that gives

me a little bit of wiggle.



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I want way more than that,



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so I'm going to crank the

Detail value as high as it goes



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to 100 per inch, and then I'll

change the points from corner



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to smooth to produce this

effect here, and I'll click OK.



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All right, now if we leave

things the way they are



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at the spot where the

beginning of the path



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meets the end of the

path, we don't want that,



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so we need this path to be a little wider



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and I'm going to make

that happen by switching



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to the scale tool, which

of course you can get



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by pressing the s key, and

then you just want to drag



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let's say to the left,

in my case, it looks like



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about 104% width-wise, and

you want the height value



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to stay 100%, so make sure to

drag in a horizontal direction



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while pressing the shift

key, and just to see



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how things are faring, I'll switch back



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to my black arrow tool and

I'll marquee these shapes



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and sure enough, I've extended the path



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outside of the transparent rectangle.



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All right, now art brushes,

as with repeating patterns,



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as we'll see in the next chapter,



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don't support dynamic effects.



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So we need to convert this

guy to a static path outline



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by going up to the Object menu



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and choosing the Expand

Appearance command,



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or if you loaded d.keys,

you have that shortcut,



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totally up to you, which

gives us this effect here.



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All right, now I'm going to

make another copy of these paths



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by pressing the enter key

or the return key on the Mac



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to bring up the Move dialog box.



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You should still see those

same values, in which case,



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click the Copy button in order

to make a copy of those paths



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and then just do it again

by pressing control + d



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or command + d on the Mac,

so that we have three sets



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of these things, and the

reason we're doing that



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is because you never know

how a brush is going to work



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until you actually

apply to a path outline.



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All right, now I'm going to

select the very first one like so



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by marqueeing these two paths



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and then I'll go up to the Window menu



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and choose the Pathfinder command



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to bring up the Pathfinder panel



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and I'm going to click

this guy right here,



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the third icon in, which is Intersect,



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which will go ahead and lop off the edges,



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and I'm really just doing that

to see how it's going to work.



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All right, so now that

we have three variations,



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two of which are currently identical,



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we have what we need to

test out this art brush



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and we're going to be doing

exactly that in the next movie.