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Designing a Poster with Custom Brushes in Illustrator

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Overview

Practice creating and applying custom brushes in Illustrator while designing a full-size, Sherlock Holmes–inspired poster.

It's easier to learn a new skill when you're designing something fun! In this course, you'll learn the ins and outs of creating and using custom brushes in Illustrator, while designing a full-size, Sherlock Holmesâinspired poster. Author Kevin Stohlmeyer walks through scanning the source materials, transforming them into Illustrator brushes, and then using them to create the final print-ready poster design.

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome
What you should know
Using the exercise files

1. Scanning Traditional Media

Creating clean source materials
Scanning and cleanup
Setting up your raster source files
Importing raster source files
Running Image Trace

2. Creating Brushes

Creating an art brush
Creating a pattern brush
Creating symbol textures

3. Refining Brushes

Setting color and tint
Customizing brushes for Wacom tablets
Saving your brushes and symbols

4. Creating a Poster

Sketching using pencil brushes
Building your design with markers
Adding texture with objects
Adding text to your poster design
Making your poster print ready

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Kevin Stohlmeyer

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