Overview
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Learn how to create custom vector brushes and paint in Adobe Illustrator. Transform hand-painted brush strokes into digital brushes and compile strokes to create the look of paint.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Exercise files
- Hand-painting brushes
- Hand-painted speckle texture
- Creating painted art brushes
- Creating pattern brushes
- Creating scatter brushes
- Creating linework brushes
- Creating bitmap surface textures
- Saving and importing your brush sets
- Applying paint brushes
- Applying linework brushes
- Applying pattern brushes
- Applying scatter brushes
- Vector brush sizes and orientations
- Using opacity, layering, and blend modes
- Rounding corners on vector shapes
- Drawing out your artwork
- Creating base vector shapes
- Applying brushes and color
- Creating shadows with vector brushes
- Creating highlights with vector brushes
- Creating linework with vector brushes
- Creating blends on grouped shapes
- Using bitmap surface textures
- Using scatter brush textures
- Rasterizing for final usage
- Bird Brain illustration
- Painted Jungle illustration
- Pak and Sal illustration
- Creating a brush with Adobe Capture
- Adobe Capture brushes in Illustrator
- Comparing brush-creating methods
- Goodbye
