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1. 0 Intro: welcome to Part five off Learning at week illustrator Siri's. In this course, we will talk about Precious. There are two kinds off brush tools in Illustrator that Been Plus two and the club Brush to , and there are five times off Precious that paid brush to create telegraphic brushes, schedule brushes, art brushes, bristle brushes and veteran brushes. In this course we will talk about all of that and more like the razor to and the West to. And of course, at the end of this course we will create this letter and snake game using what we discussed . This chapter will be much fun, so without any further ado, let's get started.
2. 1 Blob Brush Tool: in this lecture, I will talk about the blob brush to it's located here, and it showed. Cut is shaped me to change in the size of the blob crush you can use left arrived bracket keys on your keyboard, just like you do in photo shop. Drawing with La Brush to will create a closed filled shapes I will do above in the shape we will find that the two shapes are merged. This is the default behavior off the blob brush. It merged. The shapes that has the same color in the are intersected, and it works with any shape, not only what is created by the blood brush, let's choose another color and being like so we will find that they are separate shapes. After we drove with the blood brush, the shape will be de selected by default, so I have to selected in orderto recover it to change that behavior just like any two, I will double click on the blob brush to open its options and mark this option. Keep selected. That way, when I draw, the shape will be selected so I can quickly change its color back to options. Merge Onley with selecting will make illustrator merge in the shapes on Lee. When I drove above a selected shape, let me show you how it works. I will draw a shape, then these elected, and then I would do above it, even on drawing with the same color. It won't be merged. Let's select one of them and drew above it. Now the new shape will be merged with the selected one. The rest of this, too. Its options is really simple. The ability is best moving or to the right or smooth results you'll get and more to the left. More accurate results you'll get. You can change the size. Let's make it 80 for example, and he let's change it too random and make it 40 in the preview box. The black brush is the original size, and the one to the left is maximum in minus. So 80 minus 40 is 40 points, and the one to the right is maximum in positive. So 80 plus 40 is 120 points. Let's try this out. It's hoping options again. Here is the angle, which will not make any difference because the brush is a circle. So let's change the roundness from here, which is also can be done manually here, whether the roundness or the angle and the trend. Um, let's try a game. The rest of these options are grayed out because I'm using a mouse. These options works with drone tablets. The most common one is pressure that simulate a really pain pressure.
3. 2 Picking Colors With Blob Brush: in this lecture. Our talk about picking colors when you work with the blood rush to currently the Phil and the stroke and the default a white Phil and a black stroke. When I dro, I will find that it used the stroke color and he'll in the color boxes that Phil disappeared. And, of course, it created a path with Phil Color. I will be select and pick a plot Russia game. This time I have no stroke and a black fill color. When a Joe I will find it used in the film color this time, and it converted it into a stroke here in the colored boxes. So basically, working with the blood brush illustrator will make the priority to the stroke color. If there is no stroke color, then it will use the fill color.
4. 3 Eraser Tool: in this lecture, I will talk about the razor tool residue tool is usually work in combination with the blob brush tool. It makes you fix the mistakes that you did with the blob brush. It's located here, and it's shortcut is ship E. I'm opening a razor and brush. Don't AI file and let's use the blood rush to Colorize Nemo. I have here a layer named Nimmo outline. I will make a new layer and limit colors. I will hold old to limit while creating it, and I will pick the block brush. But before using it, I will make sure that these two auctions are active and big and orange color and being like so it doesn't matter to be super perfect. We will adjust it later with the A razor to now with the color is above the outline, so I will make the colors layer below the outline layer. Now I will pick the razor to and carefully remove the unwanted areas. You can resize the reason to just like you do with the plot brush to using left or right bracket keys. And it's okay to raise some off the outline because after you release the mouse. It will only affect this elected path if you find that the razor did raise the outline after releasing the mouse, that means you didn't select the color there, so it will just raise everything. So you careful. - I expect these areas and I will select the peoples and give them a highlight, using the A razor to and let's complete the coloring with the same technique. Here we go. The auctions off the razor tools are pretty much the same ends at the Club Brush tool, except basically, said Button, which I hope I don't be making this button with the club Russia's well.
5. 4 Paint Brush and Pencil Tool: in this lecture, I will talk about the paint brush tool. It's located here, and it shortcut is be big brush creates freeform strokes, and you can resize it. Also using the same shortcut, left or right bracket keys. The options off the paintbrush is pretty similar to the club brush. The fidelity is this moving and gives elected option, which works very well with Edit Selected Path that has a default value within 12 pixels. I will take, keep selected and press OK now I can refine the selected Beth after I Joe it within 12 pixels. If I draw far away, then 12 pixels, it will create a new pet back to auctions. Phil. New brush stroke will give it a fill color, but when I drew, it will not give it a fill color because we don't have one here. So let's pick a color and try again. Great. There is another tool that is similar to a paint brush to it's called the pencil toe. It's looking here, and it should. Cut is in. It does the same thing. It creates free form strokes, but it has more options like clothes, beds when ends are within and it has 15 pixels and default. Let's try it. When I drove like this and the ends are within 15 pixels, you will see this small circle and when you release it, will slept the ends to create a closed path. And also it has another option. All key struggles to smooth tool, which makes you create straight lines. When you hold the old key and with the pencil tool you can't resize. It depends. So using left and right bracket keys like you do with that brush.
6. 5 Brush Types: in this lecture, I will talk about the brush types when you work with the paint brush tool over the pencil toe. Most of the time, you are going to use the precious battle to use one off the five brush times that illustrated provides. You can open the precious battle from Windu brushes or press a five. With this menu, you can stylized the appearance off. Perhaps you can employ a brushstroke to exist in bets. Or you can use the pain press tour and the pencil to to draw a bath and apply a brushstroke simultaneously. Let's quickly demonstrate the five times off pain pressures, and later we will talk more in depth about each one of them. The first brush is the telegraph brush. The cartographic brush creates a stroke that looks like it was scribed by a real pain or a paintbrush. It was very often with calligraphy. The second brush is the scatter brush it makes. You can read a shape and then scheduled copies of it across a path. The third brush is the art brush. It makes you also create a shape and then stretch that shape along a path. The fourth brush is the bristle brush. It allows you to create brushstroke with the appearance off a natural brush with Brussels. This kind of brushes is mostly used with digital painting and finally the fifth brush, the better brush. It allows you to make up to five defined patterns and distribute them along a path. This kind off brush is very useful with friends and Borders. Illustrator has libraries for each. One of these times you can find them here and for easy navigation among them. Just open one and use the navigation bottles. And of course, you can make your own brushes or important new ones as well. We will learn all that in this chapter.
7. 6 Calligraphic Brushes: starting from this lecture, I will be talking about every type off brushes in details. We will start with the holographic brush here in the brushes panel, you will find some samples off the brush types. These are holographic brushes. This is an art brush. This is a bristle brush and this is the pattern brush. How did I know the type off the brush? You may ask simply double click on any one of them to open its options, and you will find the type off the brush here. Using the holographic brush is very simple. As we discussed, you can make the bet first, using any tools been selected. After that, you can pick the pressure like to use. Let's say this one I've created. You can pick the brush first and work with it toe. Apply the effect simultaneously, which is what I recommend, especially with holographic brushes. To edit a brush, just double click on it and make your modifications. Then click OK, and the straighter will tell you that the brush is in news. Do you want to apply these changes to be used the path or just added the brush options? I would pick up like chase. When you pick the big brush and look at the brush panel, you will find it uses one off the telegraphic brushes by default, the one named three point around. Let's double click on it you will find here this size is three points. Like when you drove, you will find here in the stroke panel, it say's one point. It is why, when you work with brushes, you have to focus about the local options, which are the options associated with the brush you are working with and the global options , which are any options outside the brush panel. So here it stays three points in local options, so illustrator treats these three points as one point. So when I increase the size here in the global auctions to two points that actually made the stroke weighed six points to buy three Equal sex. And to make sure that I will copy this path and click on Basic to bring it back to the default settings, which is one point stroke and that's it, and then make the stroke here six points, you will find that they are the same size. That's why when you re side the paint brush tool. Using the shortcuts left and right bracket keys. You are actually kind of creating a new fresh. You will see here it's saying one point, and when you click here to know the options off this little object, you will find the actual size. So the best practice here is to avoid re sizing the cartographic brush using facial cuts. Now let's learn how to create a custom holographic brush. Oh, that you need to do is to click on new brush in the precious panel and she was calligraphy brush and change the options. I will name it 60 points random. I will make the angle 60. The relevance then And of course, the size 60 points. Choose random, then give it to the maximum value. And here we are. To save the brushes you have created in a custom library, click on save brushes. But be careful. You will not only save the new brush you created, but you will also save all the brushes you see here. So you need to delete the brushes. You don't want first to do that, select the 1st 1 hold shift and click on the next one. Then hold control and click on the brushes. You want to keep to the select and think on this trash can. Some brushes can't be deleted because they are in use in something called graphic styles. We will talk about this topic later, but for now I need you to go to window graphic styles and lead everything except the default. It can be deleted. Then go back to the precious panel. And now you can delete the brushes you know want except also these two. But it doesn't matter. They want a beer in your library anyway, so let's click on save brushes, give you the name and save it somewhere in your hard drive. If you wanted to appear in the pressure, Better is menu. When you restored Illustrator, save it in the following folder to load it, click on other library. Take the fight we saved and click open. Click on the brush you want to use. In our case, there is only one brush and it will be loaded here in the precious panel ready to be used. And here you will find your custom. Lavery
8. 7 The Scatter Brush: in this lecture, I will talk about the scatter brush as we discussed. Scatter brush is a shape has been created and scattered along a pair. Let's start by creating a scatter brush. We need to complete a shape first, so I will make a star and give it a blue stroke and a black fill color, and I will make a circle inside of it with a white Phil and an orange stroke color. Then I will drag everything to the precious panel. And, of course, she was scattered fresh. I'm a brace, okay for now, and you can delete it the shape If you want, you can always bring it back by clicking and dragging it. Make sure to select the brush we've created, and let's big a stroke color something different. For example, this purple and bend with a paint brush to I will double click on it to adjust the options . And I would take the TV option to see the changes on the fly, the size controlled in the size of the original shape. Spacing controls in the amount of space between the shapes, scattered controls, how closely objects follow the path on each side of it, and rotation controls the angle off the object. The colorization section is a bit tricky. The method is none by default and decided in this lamp icon, which explains each one off the provided methods. Let's understand them one by one. None means it will keep the colors off the original shape, regardless off the stroke color you are using. Tense method will make the color off the shape display intense off the stroke color. For some reason, you have to retake the preview button again to see the changes. Prince and shit method is like pins, but it keeps the black and white colors in the original shape as they are. That is August here with the black film off the star and the wife fell off the circle. You ship method depends on the key color, and the key color must be one off the original shape colors by the fold in the settle picks of the most prominent color off the original shape. And of course, you can change it, using this eyedropper to and click here in the preview on the color we wish to work with. That key color will be the same stroke color you are using and the other colors became colors related to best row color. For this auction, I need to click OK to see the result, and this method also keeps the black and white colors as they are.
9. 8 The Art Brush: in this lecture, I will talk about the art brush as we discussed. Arte Brush makes you also carried a shape and then stretch that shape along a pair. Let's make a custom art brush. This time I will use a shape up already created. You can find it in the exercise, fire our basic control, see to copy and control the two based here. Then I will drag it to the precious panel and choose Arte Brush. Then click. OK, let's make a path. This time, I will use in the line to and click on the brush we've created to assign it to the bed and double click on it to adjust its options. Let's name it arrow, and here you can skill the wet off the original Arab. And of course, it has more options for tablet users. Here is the important part. In this section, you can control help to stretch the shape along the path. You can scare the shape proportionately or stretch it, or you can define a specific area to be stretched along the path, and this is what I'm going to use With this shape. I will use the start and the end options to select this area. You can also make this manually here rate the direction is important to define the starting point off the shape. We already discussed the colonization section with this cattle brush, and here's some options to change the orientation off the shape.
10. 9 The Bristle Brush: In this lecture, I will talk about the bristle brush with bristle brush. You can create natural brushstrokes that simulate the effects off painting with real brushes such as watercolor brushes. It's used mostly with digital painting. You can find the bristle brushes here, and, of course, you can create your own custom bristle brush. To do that, click here and choose press with brush big the shape you like and play with these options here, and you can see the changes on the fly here in this preview. And don't forget to name it. The best results you can have with the bristle brush is when you use a drawing tablet with it. Illustrator tracks the movement off the brush, as well as pressure filled hearing and rotation.
11. 10 The Pattern Brush: in this lecture, I will talk about the pattern brush. Let's start by creating, the better we are going to use. I will start with a rectangle 80 pixels by 80 pixels and give it the color, then our pest control. See to copy and control F two based in front and rotated 45 degrees and skill it down with the free transform to why holding shifting old keys and with the help off the snap and give it another color. I will copy these and change the colors. I will select everything and dragged him here in the brushes, panel and shoes. Pattern brush and click OK for now. Let's make a rectangle with no film and give it the brush we have made and double click on the brush to modify it. You will find here five slots for each part off the path and automatically Illustrator will create for you some options for the corners. And of course, you can create your own, and that's what I am going to do. I would click cancel and I will make another copy here and I will select the inner rectangle. Then I was like the direct selection toe and drag like so to convert it into a circle. And I will change the colors and I will drag this here and I will hold old. This way you can assign the shape you created toe any off the five slots we have seen our put it here. Click. Apply two strokes, and I would do the same for the other corner. The last two slots for opened paths to define the start and the end off the path. Let's create it. I will make a copy, then delete the circle. After that, I will copy the rectangle and paste it in front. Finally, I was killing it down, using the free transform, too, and change the colors, and I will click and drag here also, by holding the Ault Key noticed that the direction off the shape is not correct. It's flipped, actually, so you will need to rotate the shape first and make sure to select the move to and then drag it here. Let's see how it will look like I want to be 12 points off this rectangle. Cool. Let's make the end. This time. The direction is not flipped great with better brush you will find the fit options here. It gives you three options for distributing the shape along the path, whether to stretch the shapes or toe ad space in between, or the best option for our case is approximate Beth.
12. 11 The Width Tool: we've been talking so far about Precious, that stylized strokes. And that is perfect, because in this lecture I will talk about a tool that needs a stroke to use it on the width to It's located here, and it's short cut is shift W. Let's first make a bath. I will make a line and increase the stroke. Then I was licked the western, and when you hover over the path will find information about it, and also this small dot this is called a wet point and notice this last signed by the cursor. When you click and drag, you will change the width off the stroke at this point, and you can do as many points as you like, or even copying them by holding the old key and drag the width point. You can also change the Web off one side by holding ault. If you want to assign a with numerically or to adjust an existing point, just double click noticed that when you drag a point like so, this point will not best that one. They will overlap to create a discontinuous wet point to make this interest in effect, and when you double click on it, you will find a different battle with the same options for both points. With the West Tool you can create a with profile. It's close to a brush, but it's different with profile. Makes an algorithm that holds the changes you have made to a stroke, and you can apply these changes to any stroke with any angle, curvature or left. Let's see this in action. I will make a wet profile, starting with a simple line and increase its stroke. Then I will grab my western and do something like this. Then I would open the stroke panel, and here you can see the profile menu inside of it, some default profiles, but I'm interested to make my own, so I will click on Add two profiles, give it a name and click OK, then I will, um, hide the shapes care and apply this with profile toe all of them. Make sure to align the stroke to the center in order to activate the profiles, and I will increase the stroke to see the effect
13. 12 Symbols: in this lecture, I will talk about simple and talking about symbols is talking about saving time in our career. Finishing a task quickly and efficiently is a big deal. So let's answer this simple question. What are symbols? Well, a symbol is a piece of artwork that has been saved to be used over and over again. You create an artwork, save it as a simple and then use as many copies of it as you like. Not only that, but also when you modify this one simple, these modifications will be applied to all other instances. It's like this smart object in photo shop. Let's see this in action. I'm opening the symbols that AI file and I have here these symbols menu. It's ready here with the precious menu. If you can see it, just goto window symbols. The top copies Here are instances from this simple, and the bottom ones aren't to edit. A simple just double click on it here in the simple spaniel. Or you can double click on any off the instances, and illustrator will tell you that any changes will be applied to own the innocents is, And that's exactly what I want. Now I'm inside the simple here, it says. These parts are grouped, so I will double click toe, enter the isolation mood and change. For example, the color double click outside to exit the isolation mood. And as you can see, they all changed off course. That is not going to happen to the regular copies. Now let's learn how to use symbols here in the simple spending. You will see some samples off symbols, and it also has a library just like the brush panel. To use a simple just click and drink, and you will find here some options. Associate ID with symbols like it. It's simple. It just like double clicking or break the link to convert it into a regular copy. And this recent bottom that you can use when you make any kind of transformations like scaling, rotating, flipping, etcetera, you can use it to reset. Now let's rent how to create a simple creating a simple it, just like creating an art brush. You create in the artwork first, then click and drag inside this simple Spano. Here you can emit, and for the export type, it doesn't really matter. As long as we are inside, Illustrator. It matters for flesh, which is another application off Adobe. What is interesting here is the type off, the simple, static or dynamic all samples you can see here in the simple battle or aesthetic symbols that when you make changes at one, these changes will be applied to all the instances. But what if I want to change one innocents without breaking the link with other instances? Can I do that? Yes, you can. But you have to make this simple dynamic. Let's see this in action. To get the idea, you will see this plus sign here. Now I can use the direct selection to toe make changes to one simple without applying these changes to the other innocents is nor breaking the link. That means I can double click. And as you can see it stills red here and make something like that and exit And it will apply this change to all the instances Starting from the next lecture, we will start creating our project using all what we've learned so far.
14. 13 Project Part 1: all right. It's time to have some fun started from this lecture. We will create this snake a letter game totally from scratch. We restored by creating a new document from file New I would make it 900 pixels by 900 pictures and was create. And make sure the option off The smart guide is turning on from view smart guides. Let's start with the border by creating a rectangle. Make sure to see this intersect word and click and drag down here until you see the same world and also make sure that the rectangle is 900 pixels by 900 pixels. I removed the fill color and increased the stroke way to 40 pixels and make sure to make the alignment to inside. And I would make it this red color. After that, as we made with the Chase project, I will goto object and expand it, and I would choose the rectangular grid too, and double click on it. I want to make 102 tangos so I will make mine dividers in both directions, and then I will draw the rectangle and make sure to snap it and give it the stroke. to be seen. Then select the rectangle to and drew a rectangle using the smart guides. And I will give it this orange color with no stroke, and I would delete this Great. I don't need it anymore. Then I will clone this rectangle by holding old and click and drag like so and change its color to this green. Before we duplicate district angles To complete the background, I will make two more things. First, I will create a simple from each rectangle by opening this simple menu and drag the finished one. I would name it Rick one and the other one, and I would name it Rick, too. Second, as you can see in the final version, there is a number in each rectangle, so let's created by selecting the type to. And don't worry, I will talk about the type tool in details. Later, just click and type 00 Then select the move tool, and I need you to click on a line center and change its size toe 80 points and then clone it and use the online options toe our line it vertically and horizontally in each rectangle . Now we can make the first row by selecting everything and Elton Drag Ambrus controlled the jewelry beat until you complete the first row to make the second row. Unlike the chest project, we will not select the entire row and rotate it 180 degree. That will flip the numbers inside the rectangle, so instead we will make it manually like so. Now we can select the two rows and clone them to complete the background. The only thing left is numbering each rectangle. To do that, select the type tool, click on the number and adjusted, then with the same type, toe selected. Click on the next number and adjust it as well. I know this is so boring to number 100 rectangle, So I've already done this for you in a file named Project Part One with numbers. The reason why I made a symbol from each rectangle is to be easy for us to change the color off all the rectangles by changing the symbol That's it for now. And see you in the next lecture
15. 14 Project Part 2: Let's complete our project by creating the snakes. Before that, let's organize our layers. I was select one number and go toe select Same felt color. This was elect over the numbers press control G to grew and name it numbers the same for the rectangles. But this time I will choose the same simple instance. And I will rename the burger to Burger, finally renamed the whole layer to background and lock it. Create a new layer and let's get started by drawing a lion. Withholding the Shefki toe. Make it perfectly horizontal. Increased the stroke to maybe 20 points. Select the with tool and double click on this anchor point and make the max with two points . Click on stroke and choose round cap to make this effect here. And let's add it to profiles in case we needed it later. Then select the bottom into Andrew Triangle. Also withholding shift, rotated 90 degrees and smooth the corners with the direct selection to and make it black. Feel color without a stroke. Then drew a circle with 50% grateful color and a black stroke, and what it here. Then select the reflective and press control. Why toe activate the outline mood. Hold out and click here, then reflect a copy horizontally so like the line and expand it. Then select the blob brush to with 50% a great color. Andrew, Some organic shapes like so? So let everything now like the shape of the two. Hold bulky and remove the outer parts selecting Group everything and drag it through the precious panel and choose Arte Brush. Name it Snake stretch between guides. And of course, we want to stretch only the body. And the method is, of course tents. Now our precious ready pick and his to color. You like Andrew the snakes.
16. 15 Project Part 3: in this lecture, we will create the letters before we start. I want to notice that I met some subtle changes, like changing the colors and the stroke, weights off some snakes and also changing the position off some numbers to be seen because it was covered by the snakes. First, I will draw a rectangle 30 pixels for the width and eight pixels for the height, and then I will duplicate it. And finally I will take another copy and rotated 180 degrees. Unite everything. Now let's create the edges. I will draw a circle with the help of the smart guides to snap it. From this point to this point, it will be a basis by eight pixels. Select the direct selection tool and remove this point to create 1/2 circle and duplicated like so, with help off the smart guides to align it with the strict angle selecting. Drag the rectangles, toe the precious Palo, choose pattern brush, name it leather and choose approximate Beth. Now I will drag the edges and hold all and put them here and rotate them 180 degrees and put them here, also withholding the old key. Now we are ready to draw the letters with the line tool. And here we are. I hope you have enjoyed this chapter and see you in the next one.
17. Thank You: thank you for taking this course, if you enjoyed this course, are glad if you lift the review. And if you have any question, don't hesitate to ask me in the community on this course. And don't forget to follow me to get notified when I published the next parts off the Siri's Thank you one more time and I hope to see you soon.
Youssef Zidan, Graphic Designer
