Paint stroke settings

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July 23, 2022
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I am doing a tutorial that requires me to make a couple of brushes. Problem is there is no instruction on actually using the brush and getting the settings right. This brush should be applied to strokes and scattered along the strokes. I can't figure out how to set it for this. Here is a screenshoto of the setting pane. Hope you can help since the author left that out.

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Correct answer Monika Gause

Thanks for that correction, Monika. I didn't notice the outline view.

Since each bud was placed one at a time, why make it into a brush when it could simply be duplicated?

I assume that when you look really close, they are slightly bent. And when there are plenty, they are easier to create with the brush.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

... and once you open the scatter brush settings, set everything to random and then set up Min and Max values.

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pslane1Author

Inspiring

Thank you, Monika,

I see where I missed that choice in the tut now. I have everything set to random but have clue how to set the other values. I will look for an Illustrator help page for that. Thank you!

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

The next step in the tutorial has us scattering again and once again it won't scatter properly for me. So I just did it manually and it looks fine. But I need more experience with this scatter tool so if you know of any good sites on this please send me the URL. One of the main reasons I do tuts is to learn and I've never had a problem with this author before and love her work. She just didn't give us enough directions.

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-bouquet-of-spring-flowers-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-23271?_ga=2.87859869.444172891.1657156389-1376716264.1654477712

The instructions in step 3 say to create an Art brush. That is incorrect. It should be a Scatter brush. Once the scatter brush is created, adjust Spacing and Rotation until the brush looks the way you want it to.

If you double-click on the brush in the Brushes panel to make a change, a dialog will appear asking if you want to apply the change to all instances of the brush. If you select one of the brush strokes and click the Options icon at the bottom of the Brushes panel, it will allow you to change only the one selected instance of the brush.

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

The brush is defined as an Artbrush. It sounds like you actually want a Scatter brush.

Add the brush to the Brushes panel again, and this time choose Scatter.

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