Illustrator's Paintbrush Tool and Brush Panel | A Comprehensive Guide to Brushes in Illustrator

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What's the difference between Illustrator's Paintbrush Tool and the various brushes available in the Brush panel? Find out all about Illustrator brushes in this comprehensive video guide. ► Download hundreds of professional Illustrator brushes: elements.envato.com/add-ons/brushes/compatible-wit…

In this video, you'll get familiar with brushes in Adobe Illustrator. Andrei Marius breaks down the basics of the Paintbrush Tool and the Brushes Panel and shows you how to create, manage and work with different Illustrator brushes.

What You'll Learn:
00:33 - Brushes Panel
01:58 - Paintbrush Tool
04:13 - Calligraphic Brush
07:07 - Scatter Brush
10:35 - Art Brush
12:58 - Bristle Brush
14:31 - Pattern Brush
18:59 - Save/Load Brushes

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Illustrator's Paintbrush Tool (B) and Brush Panel are some of its most powerful tools. With the Paintbrush Tool (B) and Brush Panel, you can dress up your vector paths into compelling flourishes, patterns, tapered edges, and more.

Basically, the Paintbrush Tool (B) functions like the Pencil Tool, allowing you to click and drag to create a path. The difference is that the Paintbrush Tool applies predefined vector art to the paths you create. This might seem like a simple distinction, but using brushes will greatly improve your Illustrator productivity and help you create artwork you never thought possible.

Illustrator has four kinds of brushes. These various brushes offer a different kind of behaviors when applied to a path.

1. The Calligraphic Brush creates a brush stroke that looks as if it was made by an ink pen or paintbrush. With a Calligraphic Brush, you can define a nib or pen point.
2. The Scatter Brush will define vector art as a brush. The Scatter Brush will then scatter copies of the art across a path when applied to a path.
3. The Art Brush will define vector art as a brush. The Art Brush will stretch the art across a path when applied to a path.
4. The Pattern Brush allows you to specify five defined patterns to a brush and then distribute them along a path.

All of this will become much clearer in the video! Or read the full written guide to Illustrator's Paintbrush Tool and Brush Panel on Envato Tuts+: design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-comprehensive-guid…

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All Comments (21)
  • @artistartist3364
    It's definitely an ultimate guide. The best video tutorial devoted to this subject I ever seen and the most likely like one ever been. It's very informative and covers within twenty minuts both general information and specific one about brushes in AI, including their types and settings. Thank you for a great job!
  • @davidreid6821
    Great tutorial. Clear, well paced and very informative!
  • @vrownvegan3187
    Thank you so much dude! Great tutorial! Straight to the jugular!
  • @viprathod7536
    I AM HIGHLY APPRICITE YOU EPISOD ON BRUSH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
  • @userwebservices576
    thanks a lot man, very useful tips here in your videos,, all the best in your work! blessing from Above!
  • @MarinaArtDesign
    Hello. Is it possible to create a script or action that will automate applying of the custom brush to a folder of SVG files with just straight lines (paths). So on all paths in all files brush must be applied and then saved as SVG or exported as PNG. Is this possible?
  • @IqrashSabir
    I need a help from you. When i have created color halftone. Then it shown me different colors instead of black and white.
  • @peachblanket
    How to open the top tab when click the brush? It's missing in my AI
  • @beubbeull
    Thanks for the tutorial, but the wet mouth noises kill me bro