Introduction

    Welcome
    What you need to know
    Using the exercise files

1. Illustrator Object Brushes Overview

    Introducing what can be created with pattern brushes
    Galleries of work created with brushes
    Making and experimenting with brushes
    Scaling and distorting brushes by varying line weight
    Understanding what can and can’t be part of a brush
    Toggling whether a brushstroke creates new art automatically or not
    Exploring colorization options
    Recovering original colors after colorizing
    Accessing libraries for sets of brushes, list view, and arrow options
    Placing embedded rasters in Illustrator
    Tips for using raster images in brushes
    Prepping raster content in Photoshop first
    Rasterizing images in Illustrator
    Fixing and modifying paths using vector editing tools

2. Object-Creation Art Brushes

    Identifying what an object-creating brush is
    Making different kinds of object-creating art brushes
    Changing orientation and direction for a brush
    Painting with object-creating art brushes
    Painting with object-creating raster art brushes
    Making new art by changing which brushes are applied to paths
    Setting the scale of a brushstroke
    Setting scale and width of a stroke to react to pressure from a tablet stylus
    Scaling a brushstroke proportionally
    Stretching a stroke between guides
    Exploring options for problematic stroke overlaps

3. Pattern Brushes

    Understanding pattern brushes and what they can do
    Understanding tile order differences in brush options
    Making a new pattern brush in the Brushes panel
    Overview of the automatic corner options
    Adding a custom corner
    Customizing a pattern brush with start and end points
    Adjusting pattern options to flip image-pattern orientation
    Looking at the different fit options
    Painting art clusters using pattern brushes
    Comparing art brushes to pattern brushes with the same piece of art
    Overview of scale adjustment options using tablet stylus pressure
    How to modify a pattern and keep the previous autocorner
    Simulating corners for patterns that can’t support corners
    Making pattern tiles available from options dialog pop-ups
    Understanding swatch warnings

4. Scatter Brushes

    Introducing scatter brushes
    Using scatter brushes
    Understanding random parameters in a scatter brush
    Adjusting brush definition and using pressure on a tablet
    Understanding the Rotation Relative To parameter
    Incorporating rasters in scatter brushes

5. Symbols as Brush-Like Objects

    Comparing symbols to scatter brushes
    Making and placing symbol instances
    Editing symbols and going into isolation mode
    Creating symbols from a variety of objects, including rasters

6. Expanding Your Toolset

    Using the Variable Width tool to affect brush scaling and distortion
    Adding stroke effects using the Control or Appearance panel
    Replacing a brush for auto-updating
    Experimenting and happy accidents
    Experimenting with artistic projects between Adobe applications