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NOVEMBER 26, 2003 Pattern Brushes in Adobe Illustrator
Creating the corner piece Now for the tricky part. The corner piece for our brush has to be an exact fit for our woven stroke. So how do you do it? There are several ways, ranging from drawing the stroke manually to using a simple block of color. But for our tutorial, we'll create a decorative corner based on our woven stroke. It's a fairly simple method, though it may take you a few tries to get it just right. [an error occurred while processing this directive]To begin, take the dual-stroke object you just created and drag it into your Symbols palette.  Now drag the symbol back from the Symbols palette onto your canvas, and apply Object > Transform > Scale. The goal here is to cause the symbol to collapse almost completely in on itself horizontally. So enter the smallest value you can while still being able to see something of the object. I'm going to scale mine horizontally to 0.01 percent.  OK, now we have to make this into a proper corner piece. So go to Effect > Warp > Arc, and set the Arc value to 50 percent.  Obviously, this piece is not yet at the correct orientation to make a corner piece, so we'll have to rotate it. But first we need to expand its appearance so that our Arc effect isn't ruined by the reorientation. So select your corner piece and choose Object > Expand Appearance. Then rotate it 45 degrees counter-clockwise.  When you're done, choose Object > Path > Outline Stroke. (This won't make a visible difference to your object, but it's important later on.) Finally, our corner piece is done, and we're almost ready to start assembling our final stroke. But first, drag the new corner piece into your Swatches palette, as seen below. Give it a name that you will recognize later. You can rename it simply by double-clicking on the swatch in the Swatches palette. (But be sure you don't have anything selected on your canvas when you do.) I'll call mine simply "Dave 1."  Prev 1 2 3 Next Related sites: • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Producer • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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