Evgeniya & Dominic Righini-Brand

Creating Custom Arrowheads for Styling Linear Vector Graphics in Adobe Illustrator

Wow Poshika! These are extremely creative and so very well done.

I love the floral designs! Those are so pretty!

Great job, Poshika! Love your arrowheads and the way you've used them! Your custom type looks really playful and exciting and the patterns also look like fun! Would be great to see some application mock-ups for all of these. What could your designs could be used for, do you have a specific applications in mind or are you just experimenting at this stage? Also, it would be really interesting to see how your custom type looks with a different stroke weight, maybe a little lighter perhaps for comparison? It already looks great, I'm just curious:) Your letter E is so exciting, love how you've used the arrowheads throughout! If you get a chance, be sure to share the image of original paths you've used before adding arrowheads. I was thinking of making custom type with arrowheads for the next year's 36 Day of Type challenge, and I think you should definitely join in with yours! Also, if you are into experimenting with type, you could consider combining your arrowheads with a completely custom line-based typeface, so don't hesitate to check out my <a href="https://skl.sh/2kxYLcU" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">type design class</a> which might give you some ideas!;) Thank you so much for taking this class, sharing your exciting experiments and leaving a review! I'll be looking forward to seeing more of your arrowhead experiments soon!:) —Evgeniya P.S. When applying different arrowheads to patterns watch out for the spacing between the elements, which could change depending on the size and shape of the arrowheads. Sometimes you might need to manually nudge some of the pattern elements a little, but often you can also just try reversing the direction of some paths to have more even gaps, or if the elements get way too tight and you are extending the arrow tips beyond the end of the paths, you might also want to reduce the length of each path in the pattern by selecting them all and using the Transform Each function: there if you reduce the width and height of all elements the same way (e.g. 75%) and uncheck Scale Stroke and Effects, all your paths will just get a little shorter allowing more room around but will stay in the same place and the styling with also stay uniform. So that's something to try out if you want to finalise your patterns for use.

Just tried bring in different shapes into arrowheads and put them into different patterns logos and custom type.<img style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" src="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/f1466daa3239a2dfd10bc1406bbf1bfc/a5f45b23" alt="Arrowheads - image 1 - student project" srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=600,format=auto/uploads/project/f1466daa3239a2dfd10bc1406bbf1bfc/a5f45b23 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/f1466daa3239a2dfd10bc1406bbf1bfc/a5f45b23 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy"><img src="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/f1466daa3239a2dfd10bc1406bbf1bfc/c0c19a5c" alt="Arrowheads - image 2 - student project" srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=600,format=auto/uploads/project/f1466daa3239a2dfd10bc1406bbf1bfc/c0c19a5c 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/f1466daa3239a2dfd10bc1406bbf1bfc/c0c19a5c 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">

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