Illustrator for Fashion Design: Creating Brushes
Overview
Explore the power of Illustrator brushes to quickly and easily add detail to your fashion illustrations.
Explore the power of Adobe Illustrator brushes to quickly and easily add detail to your fashion illustrations. This course shows how to create and maximize the use of pattern and scatter brushes; make brushes with start and end tiles; and control brush placement relative to the path for greater control. Packed with creative ideas and inspiration, author Robin Schneider's examples are specifically geared toward fashion design use but the techniques can be applied to any design field.
Explore the power of Adobe Illustrator brushes to quickly and easily add detail to your fashion illustrations. This course shows how to create and maximize the use of pattern and scatter brushes; make brushes with start and end tiles; and control brush placement relative to the path for greater control. Packed with creative ideas and inspiration, author Robin Schneider's examples are specifically geared toward fashion design use but the techniques can be applied to any design field.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Creating pin tucks
- Making boning
- Creating bias trim
- Making ribbing
- Creating twill tape
- Adding finished ends to your brushes
- Controlling brush alignment relative to a path
- Making chains
- Creating cording
- Making braids
- Creating linking chains: Pattern brush
- Making shoelaces
- Creating ruching
- More ways to create ruching
- Making smocking
- Making elastic in casing
- Creating a ruffle
- Making sequins
- Creating fancy sequins
- Creating rhinestones
- Creating studs
- Making a fringe
- Creating a beaded fringe
- Creating fur
- Creating fur trim
- Making a pom-pom fringe
- Prepping a JPEG image to use as a brush in Illustrator
- Making mock lace
- Creating lace from actual lace
- Creating eyelet lace
- Making embroidered lace
- Next steps
Taught by
Robin Schneider
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