Chapter 10. Working with Brushes

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Work with the Blob Brush tool and the Eraser tool.

  • Use the four brush types: Art, Calligraphic, Pattern, and Scatter.

  • Change the brush color and adjust brush settings.

  • Create new brushes from Adobe Illustrator artwork.

  • Apply brushes to paths created with drawing tools.

  • Work with the Scribble effect.

This lesson takes approximately an hour to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson10 folder onto it.

Working with Brushes

The variety of brush types in Adobe Illustrator CS4 lets you create a myriad of effects simply by ...

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