Problems Making Bristle Brush

[PhattyPatty]

Hey so I am fallowing https://vectorcove.com/text-effects/fire-text-effect/  <----- this tutorial on making a fire effect over my text. it has worked perfectly up to step 4. when i try to make the gradient circle a bristle brush first the option isn't available and all the other options say i have elements not allowing this to become a brush. I've try'd making the circle with the eclipse tool, as well has hand drawing it with the pencil tool. i apply a gradient fill no stroke but nothing works. if anyone has any advice on how to make this effect that would be wonderful.

thanks all,

PhattyPatty

[DougKatz]

I would like to understand this too. I realized after looking at your tutorial that I don't know how to make a bristle brush from objects on the artboard. Someone will  be around before long to enlighten both of us, I'm sure.

[Monika Gause]

Bristile brushes are not made out of objects. You just make them by specifying the options.

Please read the documentation.

Verwenden von Pinseln in Illustrator

[PhattyPatty]

That article doesn't clear up my question at all. If bristle brushes cannot be made out of objects, then why does a tutorial say to make the bursh out of the object? It literally says "draw your circle fill it with a gradient then drag it into your brushes panel and specify it be saved as a bristle brush". Then goes on to draw paths with the pencil tool and then clicked the "brush made out of an object" to cause the fire effect. If thats not a possible thing to do on illustrator, then how do they do it?

[Monika Gause]

then why does a tutorial say to make the bursh out of the object?

Because not every tutorial writer does know what they're talking about.

[PhattyPatty]

So then since you clearly know that they are just making things up, can you properly instruct me on making this effect, or lead me to a tutorial that isn't making up lies? Because according to your logic i could write a tutorial on making certain effects in illustrator lie about the steps i took, and then have it be the recommended tutorial by google and adobe's own search engine for tutorials. If you dont have an actual solution to someones question please dont waste their time, as you have wasted mine. Thanks and have a wonderful day.

[Ton Frederiks]

Instead of attacking Monika for telling the thruth, you should ask the creator of the article for an explanation.

The Help file very clearly states that you cannot use gradients when you create artwork for brushes.

Create or modify brushes

Follow these guidelines when creating artwork for brushes:

• The artwork cannot contain gradients, blends, other brush strokes, mesh objects, bitmap images, graphs, placed files, or masks.

[DougKatz]

As I suspected, the tutorial is wrong. Factually so. Beyond the question of gradients – which cannot be used in live form to make any type of brush – bristle brushes cannot be made from artboard objects, gradient-filled ellipses or otherwise.

"Because according to your logic i could write a tutorial on making certain effects in illustrator lie about the steps i took, and then have it be the recommended tutorial by google and adobe's own search engine for tutorials."

Yes. That's exactly right. The motive for doing this is less clear than, say, campaigning for political office, but misinformation in all forms is free-flowing… even at google and adobe from time to time. Maybe the author of the tutorial wasn't lying at all. Maybe he or she simply skipped a number of steps (quite a number) in the tutorial. But as it reads, it's wrong.

Thanks, Monika, for clearing that up.