Trying To Create Dotted Brush Stroke With Random Colors For Dots

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February 6, 2022
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Mac OS Big Sur 11.6 — Ai 26.0.3

I created a Scatter Brush based on a 6 px circle, set to a medium green and increased the spacing to 187% to give them some breathing room. I applied this to the Stroke of a 300 px circle.

How could I get the dots to diplay a more random range of colors, such as the ones I have in my Swatches panel? I'd like to get a mix of the greens, blues and ambers swatches.

How to

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Correct answer femkeblanco

You need to expand the brush (Object > Expand Appearance) and then ungroup, so that each dot is a path. You can then apply random colors.

femkeblancoCorrect answer

Legend

You need to expand the brush (Object > Expand Appearance) and then ungroup, so that each dot is a path. You can then apply random colors.

Chris PannyAuthor

Inspiring

What if I wanted to get the effect in the screenshot below. I will need to generate about 35 of these circles. Each one would be scaled 108% larger than the previous. To implement your idea would be a huge task. I was hoping to automate this, if possible.

(Maybe this effect below was created with a plugin?)