Adobe Illustrator : Vector brushes and illustrations

Learn to create a sketchy scatter brush in Photoshop and Illustrator, turn textures into vector illustrations, and apply image trace for crisp vector art.

Continue the sketch scatter brush lesson by creating the source art, previewing texture, and configuring black-and-white tracing with threshold, ignore white, reduce anchor points, and expand to a vector texture.

Create a scatter brush in Illustrator by sizing the texture to 80 pixels high and enabling live preview, then apply random size, spacing, scatter, rotation, and colorization to tints.

Save the sketch brush from the brush panel to a desktop library for use in new documents. Load it via other library, adjust scatter and size, and apply to illustrations.

Use the scatter brush in Adobe Illustrator to add sketchy strokes to a pot design, then apply clipping masks and layer adjustments for texture.

Learn to create a grain scatter brush in Photoshop, import scatter brushes, vectorize with image trace in Illustrator, and build a grain brush with size and rotation to add noise.

Learn how art brushes in Adobe Illustrator apply artwork to paths and how to create and customize brushes like a 'tree brush' using direction, scale, and guides.

Create a vector art brush from Photoshop dry media textures, convert via image trace in Illustrator, and fine-tune with stretch between guides and tinting.

Use the saved art brush to refine edge strokes on the flat flower, after integrating scatter brush strokes for a sketchy look; apply a 1-point stroke to match the design.

Create and apply a pattern brush to repeat art along a path. Learn five tiles: outer corner, inner corner, side, start, end, and how open and closed paths use them.

Learn to build an Illustrator pattern brush from a texture by dividing it into start, middle, and end tiles, then apply tint colorization for seamless long-path repeats.

Apply the pattern brush to your illustration, adjust stroke color and size, and apply it to all parts, then convert Photoshop brushes to vector brushes using the course steps.

Conclude the course by mastering vector brushes in Illustrator, completing class projects, and preparing for more advanced illustration techniques in a forthcoming course.