1 00:00:00.04 --> 00:00:02.02 - [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to create 2 00:00:02.02 --> 00:00:05.06 a Pattern Brush, complete with auto corners, 3 00:00:05.06 --> 00:00:08.05 which is a recent development in Illustrator. 4 00:00:08.05 --> 00:00:12.03 It's a CC thing that is truly awesome. 5 00:00:12.03 --> 00:00:16.06 So I'm going to go ahead and turn on my zee layer right there, 6 00:00:16.06 --> 00:00:19.01 and then I'll click on it to select it. 7 00:00:19.01 --> 00:00:21.02 And next, I'll go up to the Window menu 8 00:00:21.02 --> 00:00:23.03 and I'll choose the Brushes command 9 00:00:23.03 --> 00:00:25.06 in order to bring up the Brushes panel. 10 00:00:25.06 --> 00:00:27.01 Now this panel is chock full 11 00:00:27.01 --> 00:00:29.06 of a ton of different kinds of brushes 12 00:00:29.06 --> 00:00:32.02 that I assembled back in chapter 33. 13 00:00:32.02 --> 00:00:34.03 And we're going to add yet another brush 14 00:00:34.03 --> 00:00:36.01 to the bottom of the panel. 15 00:00:36.01 --> 00:00:39.01 So go ahead and click on the little page icon 16 00:00:39.01 --> 00:00:41.04 down here at the bottom of the Brushes panel 17 00:00:41.04 --> 00:00:45.02 and select Pattern Brush and then click OK. 18 00:00:45.02 --> 00:00:47.08 At which point notice that it wants to turn 19 00:00:47.08 --> 00:00:50.00 the letter Z into a brush, 20 00:00:50.00 --> 00:00:52.00 which is not what we want at all. 21 00:00:52.00 --> 00:00:54.03 Now what's interesting about a Pattern Brush 22 00:00:54.03 --> 00:00:58.04 is that it has five different pieces to it 23 00:00:58.04 --> 00:01:01.00 and each of these five pieces control 24 00:01:01.00 --> 00:01:03.03 a certain element of the brush. 25 00:01:03.03 --> 00:01:06.01 Now the most important one is the second one, 26 00:01:06.01 --> 00:01:08.06 you have to define a Side Tile. 27 00:01:08.06 --> 00:01:10.03 And the Side Tile is actually 28 00:01:10.03 --> 00:01:13.06 the tile that repeats through the path outline. 29 00:01:13.06 --> 00:01:15.07 And so I'll go ahead and change my Side Tile 30 00:01:15.07 --> 00:01:18.02 to vertical denim, like so. 31 00:01:18.02 --> 00:01:20.09 And you can see that that fills things out nicely. 32 00:01:20.09 --> 00:01:24.02 But if this first item right here, 33 00:01:24.02 --> 00:01:26.07 which is the Outer Corner, notice that, 34 00:01:26.07 --> 00:01:28.09 and Illustrator's trying to show you 35 00:01:28.09 --> 00:01:30.03 what an Outer Corner is. 36 00:01:30.03 --> 00:01:32.07 This would be the corner on the outside of the path, 37 00:01:32.07 --> 00:01:34.08 where this would be the inner corner 38 00:01:34.08 --> 00:01:36.05 on the inside of the path, 39 00:01:36.05 --> 00:01:38.02 but I'm here to tell you 40 00:01:38.02 --> 00:01:40.07 it is ultimately a random phenomenon, 41 00:01:40.07 --> 00:01:42.08 it really depends on the path outline. 42 00:01:42.08 --> 00:01:46.09 But I'm going to go ahead and change the Outer Corner to None, 43 00:01:46.09 --> 00:01:50.05 just so you can see how very important corners are. 44 00:01:50.05 --> 00:01:52.09 And then I'll change the Method down here, 45 00:01:52.09 --> 00:01:55.04 the Colorization Method, to Tints. 46 00:01:55.04 --> 00:01:58.03 And I'll go ahead and name this guy auto denim 47 00:01:58.03 --> 00:02:01.02 for reasons that will become obvious in just a moment. 48 00:02:01.02 --> 00:02:03.06 After which point I'll click OK. 49 00:02:03.06 --> 00:02:05.08 And then I'll go ahead and apply that brush 50 00:02:05.08 --> 00:02:08.08 and I want you to notice how the brush preview 51 00:02:08.08 --> 00:02:11.00 here inside the Brushes panel 52 00:02:11.00 --> 00:02:13.08 has six different containers inside of it. 53 00:02:13.08 --> 00:02:16.08 The first container represents the outer corner, 54 00:02:16.08 --> 00:02:20.01 the second two show you the side pattern, 55 00:02:20.01 --> 00:02:22.05 and so that's why that thing's repeated, 56 00:02:22.05 --> 00:02:24.02 then we see the inner corner, 57 00:02:24.02 --> 00:02:27.08 and after that we see the start tile and the end tile, 58 00:02:27.08 --> 00:02:30.05 both of which we'll visit in a future movie. 59 00:02:30.05 --> 00:02:34.02 In any case, go ahead and click on that guy to apply it. 60 00:02:34.02 --> 00:02:38.00 And you can see what a mess it is without any corners. 61 00:02:38.00 --> 00:02:40.09 So as long as the path outline is nice and smooth 62 00:02:40.09 --> 00:02:43.01 then the Pattern Brush moves along with it 63 00:02:43.01 --> 00:02:45.04 very much as if it was an art brush, 64 00:02:45.04 --> 00:02:48.07 but as soon as we come to a corner we lose our pattern. 65 00:02:48.07 --> 00:02:52.07 And that's because currently the corner tiles are undefined. 66 00:02:52.07 --> 00:02:54.07 All right, just to make this show up a little better 67 00:02:54.07 --> 00:02:56.05 I'm going to click on the stroke swatch 68 00:02:56.05 --> 00:02:58.01 up here in the control panel 69 00:02:58.01 --> 00:03:00.02 and change it to this light shade of orange 70 00:03:00.02 --> 00:03:03.04 that begins R equals 251. 71 00:03:03.04 --> 00:03:05.08 And I also want to give this guy a drop shadow. 72 00:03:05.08 --> 00:03:08.07 So I'll bring up the Effect menu, choose Stylize, 73 00:03:08.07 --> 00:03:10.04 and then choose Drop Shadow. 74 00:03:10.04 --> 00:03:11.07 And these are my settings. 75 00:03:11.07 --> 00:03:14.09 I set the Mode to Multiply, the Opacity is 100%, 76 00:03:14.09 --> 00:03:19.00 the Color is black, both the X and Y Offset are 2 points, 77 00:03:19.00 --> 00:03:21.00 and the Blur is 0 point, 78 00:03:21.00 --> 00:03:23.07 so that we'll get a nice, graphic effect. 79 00:03:23.07 --> 00:03:25.08 And notice, if I turn on the Preview checkbox 80 00:03:25.08 --> 00:03:28.02 that helps things stand out nicely. 81 00:03:28.02 --> 00:03:31.04 After which point I'll click OK. 82 00:03:31.04 --> 00:03:34.03 All right, now let's take care of these corners here 83 00:03:34.03 --> 00:03:36.08 by bringing up the Brushes panel once again, 84 00:03:36.08 --> 00:03:38.08 dropping down to that very last brush, 85 00:03:38.08 --> 00:03:40.05 and double-clicking on it. 86 00:03:40.05 --> 00:03:42.00 And I want you to notice something here. 87 00:03:42.00 --> 00:03:44.07 The Preview checkbox is turned on, 88 00:03:44.07 --> 00:03:47.00 but I'm afraid it doesn't really do us much good 89 00:03:47.00 --> 00:03:49.02 where the various tiles are concerned. 90 00:03:49.02 --> 00:03:52.05 Now you can preview the Colorization technique, 91 00:03:52.05 --> 00:03:54.06 for example, if you set it to None 92 00:03:54.06 --> 00:03:56.06 then your stroke will turn black. 93 00:03:56.06 --> 00:03:58.09 I don't want that, so I'll switch it back to Tints. 94 00:03:58.09 --> 00:04:01.07 But if I were to set the, let's say, Outer Corner Tile 95 00:04:01.07 --> 00:04:04.02 to something like Auto-Centered 96 00:04:04.02 --> 00:04:05.09 then we're not actually going to see 97 00:04:05.09 --> 00:04:07.02 that applied to the corner. 98 00:04:07.02 --> 00:04:08.07 Although I have to be honest, 99 00:04:08.07 --> 00:04:12.03 I don't know if that's the outer corner or not. 100 00:04:12.03 --> 00:04:14.09 Perhaps this is the outer corner. 101 00:04:14.09 --> 00:04:17.02 We're not actually preview either of them. 102 00:04:17.02 --> 00:04:19.09 To see, let's just go ahead and click OK, 103 00:04:19.09 --> 00:04:22.01 at which point Illustrator will ask me 104 00:04:22.01 --> 00:04:24.02 if I want to apply my changes to the strokes, 105 00:04:24.02 --> 00:04:25.05 I do. 106 00:04:25.05 --> 00:04:28.09 Notice that Leave Strokes really grabs your attention there. 107 00:04:28.09 --> 00:04:31.05 So try not to click it if you don't want to. 108 00:04:31.05 --> 00:04:33.07 Just go ahead and click Apply to Strokes 109 00:04:33.07 --> 00:04:36.05 and notice this time that is the outer corner, 110 00:04:36.05 --> 00:04:39.09 up there in the top right corner of the artwork. 111 00:04:39.09 --> 00:04:42.03 All right, I'm going to double-click on this guy again 112 00:04:42.03 --> 00:04:46.00 and I want you to notice that there are four different 113 00:04:46.00 --> 00:04:48.04 Auto options that are available to you. 114 00:04:48.04 --> 00:04:53.06 Auto-Centered, Auto-Between, Auto-Sliced, and Auto-Overlap. 115 00:04:53.06 --> 00:04:55.05 Now the first two are a little bit difficult 116 00:04:55.05 --> 00:04:57.06 to distinguish each other most of the time, 117 00:04:57.06 --> 00:04:59.05 but the last two are pretty obvious. 118 00:04:59.05 --> 00:05:02.03 And what I've done, I'll go ahead and click OK for now, 119 00:05:02.03 --> 00:05:04.02 but I've put together a handful of files 120 00:05:04.02 --> 00:05:05.03 to show the difference 121 00:05:05.03 --> 00:05:08.01 where this specific path outline is concerned. 122 00:05:08.01 --> 00:05:11.08 So this is effect of applying Auto-Centered 123 00:05:11.08 --> 00:05:13.09 to each one of the corners. 124 00:05:13.09 --> 00:05:17.01 Whereas if we were to apply Auto-Between 125 00:05:17.01 --> 00:05:18.09 then we would get this effect here. 126 00:05:18.09 --> 00:05:22.07 So as I'm saying, it has quite the subtle difference. 127 00:05:22.07 --> 00:05:24.07 So again, this is Auto-Centered 128 00:05:24.07 --> 00:05:26.07 and this is Auto-Between. 129 00:05:26.07 --> 00:05:29.09 So in both cases these lines are fanning outward, 130 00:05:29.09 --> 00:05:31.07 we just have a different distribution 131 00:05:31.07 --> 00:05:34.06 of those lines inside the pattern. 132 00:05:34.06 --> 00:05:37.02 Whereas if I switch to Auto-Sliced 133 00:05:37.02 --> 00:05:38.08 things are quite different. 134 00:05:38.08 --> 00:05:40.01 You can see that the paths 135 00:05:40.01 --> 00:05:42.01 are actually overlapping each other 136 00:05:42.01 --> 00:05:44.06 and that they're sliced through the center, 137 00:05:44.06 --> 00:05:47.02 as apposed to being fanned. 138 00:05:47.02 --> 00:05:48.08 So that's something to bear in mind. 139 00:05:48.08 --> 00:05:51.04 You may find that to be helpful sometimes. 140 00:05:51.04 --> 00:05:53.09 And then if you have perpendicular corners 141 00:05:53.09 --> 00:05:56.06 you might want to take advantage of Auto-Overlap, 142 00:05:56.06 --> 00:05:59.07 which in our case is creating a kind of waffle pattern. 143 00:05:59.07 --> 00:06:02.07 So I just want you to see what each one of those looks like. 144 00:06:02.07 --> 00:06:05.08 Anyway, I'm going to switch back to my artwork in progress 145 00:06:05.08 --> 00:06:07.04 and I'll bring up the Brushes panel 146 00:06:07.04 --> 00:06:10.05 and double-click on that brush once again. 147 00:06:10.05 --> 00:06:13.00 And I'll go ahead and change the Inner Corner 148 00:06:13.00 --> 00:06:15.03 to Auto-Between, let's say, 149 00:06:15.03 --> 00:06:16.09 and notice that that goes ahead 150 00:06:16.09 --> 00:06:19.08 and fills out this interior corner right there. 151 00:06:19.08 --> 00:06:24.01 And then if I click OK and click Apply to Strokes 152 00:06:24.01 --> 00:06:27.08 then I apply that setting to the bottom left corner, 153 00:06:27.08 --> 00:06:30.09 which Illustrator considers to be an interior corner 154 00:06:30.09 --> 00:06:32.08 for whatever reason. 155 00:06:32.08 --> 00:06:35.06 Also notice that the brush preview is filling out 156 00:06:35.06 --> 00:06:37.02 here inside the Brushes panel. 157 00:06:37.02 --> 00:06:39.02 So in addition to those side patterns 158 00:06:39.02 --> 00:06:44.00 we also have the outer corner and the inner corner. 159 00:06:44.00 --> 00:06:45.07 All right, thing is I'm not 160 00:06:45.07 --> 00:06:49.01 all together happy with this brush stroke. 161 00:06:49.01 --> 00:06:51.08 I want it to look more like this one here. 162 00:06:51.08 --> 00:06:54.03 So in other words the lines are running parallel 163 00:06:54.03 --> 00:06:57.05 instead of perpendicular to the path outline. 164 00:06:57.05 --> 00:06:59.06 And that's a pretty easy change to make, 165 00:06:59.06 --> 00:07:02.03 so I'll just go ahead and turn the zee off for a moment 166 00:07:02.03 --> 00:07:04.05 and turn on the expanded layer again. 167 00:07:04.05 --> 00:07:06.09 And I'll go ahead and zoom in here 168 00:07:06.09 --> 00:07:08.06 and I'll marquee this guy 169 00:07:08.06 --> 00:07:11.05 and just drag him over to the right 170 00:07:11.05 --> 00:07:13.04 while pressing the Shift and Alt keys, 171 00:07:13.04 --> 00:07:15.04 that's Shift and Option on the Mac. 172 00:07:15.04 --> 00:07:16.09 And then I'll press the R key 173 00:07:16.09 --> 00:07:19.03 to switch to my Rotate Tool right there, 174 00:07:19.03 --> 00:07:21.08 and I'll press the Enter key, or the Return key on a Mac, 175 00:07:21.08 --> 00:07:23.07 to bring up the Rotate dialog box. 176 00:07:23.07 --> 00:07:27.08 I'll enter an Angle value of 90 degrees and click OK. 177 00:07:27.08 --> 00:07:30.03 And then I'll press the V key in order to switch back 178 00:07:30.03 --> 00:07:31.08 to my black arrow tool, 179 00:07:31.08 --> 00:07:35.01 I'll Shift + click on that red square to deselect it. 180 00:07:35.01 --> 00:07:37.09 I just want it to be there for the sake of contrast. 181 00:07:37.09 --> 00:07:40.07 And then I'll go to the Object menu, 182 00:07:40.07 --> 00:07:43.07 choose Pattern, and choose Make. 183 00:07:43.07 --> 00:07:45.07 And I'll just go ahead and call this guy 184 00:07:45.07 --> 00:07:48.03 horizontal denim this time around, 185 00:07:48.03 --> 00:07:50.04 and I'll press the Enter key, or the Return key on a Mac, 186 00:07:50.04 --> 00:07:51.05 to accept that name, 187 00:07:51.05 --> 00:07:53.04 and otherwise that is it. 188 00:07:53.04 --> 00:07:56.04 Now all I have to do is press the Escape key 189 00:07:56.04 --> 00:07:58.04 in order to create that new pattern. 190 00:07:58.04 --> 00:08:00.06 And I'll zoom back out by pressing Control + 0, 191 00:08:00.06 --> 00:08:02.03 or Command + 0 on the Mac. 192 00:08:02.03 --> 00:08:04.04 And I'll turn that layer off 193 00:08:04.04 --> 00:08:06.03 and then I'll go up to the Brushes panel 194 00:08:06.03 --> 00:08:10.03 and I'll double-click on that last brush right there, 195 00:08:10.03 --> 00:08:12.00 the one that's called auto denim, 196 00:08:12.00 --> 00:08:15.09 and I'll change my Side Tile to horizontal denim. 197 00:08:15.09 --> 00:08:18.03 And because the corners are auto corners 198 00:08:18.03 --> 00:08:20.00 they're going to fill in automatically, 199 00:08:20.00 --> 00:08:21.02 as you can see right there. 200 00:08:21.02 --> 00:08:22.07 So it's very easy. 201 00:08:22.07 --> 00:08:25.08 In the old days you had to hand design your corners, 202 00:08:25.08 --> 00:08:27.02 which means that if you decide 203 00:08:27.02 --> 00:08:29.00 to change your mind with the Side Tile 204 00:08:29.00 --> 00:08:31.07 you would have to redesign the corner tiles as well. 205 00:08:31.07 --> 00:08:34.06 Nowadays Illustrator takes care of it for you. 206 00:08:34.06 --> 00:08:36.03 At which point I'll click OK 207 00:08:36.03 --> 00:08:37.07 and then Illustrator will ask me 208 00:08:37.07 --> 00:08:40.03 do I want to apply my changes to the strokes? 209 00:08:40.03 --> 00:08:41.08 Of course I do. 210 00:08:41.08 --> 00:08:43.07 And so then I'll just go ahead 211 00:08:43.07 --> 00:08:46.02 and bring back my zee, like so. 212 00:08:46.02 --> 00:08:48.08 And you can see that the deed is done. 213 00:08:48.08 --> 00:08:51.03 The one problem is notice right there 214 00:08:51.03 --> 00:08:54.08 that we've got some goofy overlapping going on, 215 00:08:54.08 --> 00:08:56.01 I don't want that. 216 00:08:56.01 --> 00:08:58.02 And so I'll bring back the Brushes panel, 217 00:08:58.02 --> 00:09:00.00 I'll double-click on the brush, 218 00:09:00.00 --> 00:09:02.05 and I'll change that Outer Corner Tile 219 00:09:02.05 --> 00:09:06.00 from Auto-Sliced to Auto-Center, let's say, 220 00:09:06.00 --> 00:09:08.07 and then I'll click OK to accept that change. 221 00:09:08.07 --> 00:09:10.04 I'll click Apply to Strokes 222 00:09:10.04 --> 00:09:13.05 and I end up with this effect instead. 223 00:09:13.05 --> 00:09:15.03 Now the thing to bear in mind 224 00:09:15.03 --> 00:09:17.01 with both of the auto functions 225 00:09:17.01 --> 00:09:19.06 is they tend to result in a little static, 226 00:09:19.06 --> 00:09:21.04 as we can see right there. 227 00:09:21.04 --> 00:09:22.06 If that bothers you 228 00:09:22.06 --> 00:09:24.06 you might go ahead and double-click again 229 00:09:24.06 --> 00:09:27.09 and try switching that to Auto-Between 230 00:09:27.09 --> 00:09:30.07 and see if that works out any better. 231 00:09:30.07 --> 00:09:33.08 And in my case, eh, I don't think it really does, 232 00:09:33.08 --> 00:09:36.01 so I'll press Control + Z, or Command + Z on a Mac, 233 00:09:36.01 --> 00:09:37.07 to undo that change. 234 00:09:37.07 --> 00:09:39.06 And then I'll hide the Brushes panel 235 00:09:39.06 --> 00:09:41.06 and I'll just go ahead and press Control + 0, 236 00:09:41.06 --> 00:09:45.08 or Command + 0 on a Mac, to zoom on out. 237 00:09:45.08 --> 00:09:48.02 And that is how you create a Pattern Brush 238 00:09:48.02 --> 00:09:51.05 that flows along the contour of a path outline, 239 00:09:51.05 --> 00:09:53.05 as well as how you take advantage 240 00:09:53.05 --> 00:09:57.06 of the four auto corner settings here inside Illustrator CC.