Practical Artbrush (practical_artbrush.ai.zip)
Practical Pattern Brush
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How to make a banner
Banners are kind of tricky. Here's one way...banners01.ai.zip
Turn on the video record in Zoom
Banners are kind of tricky. Here's one way...banners01.ai.zip
3dlettering01.ai.zip
Taken from a great youtube video channel, creatnprocess
Works better with 3D "Classic"
Powerful, tricky to use.
Main gotcha: don't use strokes, they won't render predictably
If you really want good 3D, use MAX, Maya or some other 3D application.
Source: 3dexrude01.ai.zip
Source: pineapple-steps.ai.zip
Source: bottle_label-steps.ai.zip
The trick is to make the thing you want to wrap into a symbol first
Source: 3drotate01.ai.zip
Source: perspective_label.ai.zip
Can be a little flakey, especially with strokes. Hard to turn off, you have to this that tiny x in the upper left corner.
Object to trace with curvature tool (right click to download)
Borrowed from 'Yes I'm a Designer' YouTube
| Gesture | Result |
| First click/release | Drop and anchor for start of curvature line |
| Following clicks/releases | Draw a curved line from previous anchor and drop a smooth anchor |
| Following clicks/drags | Create a moving smooth anchor. Releasing the mouse drops the anchor |
| Option/Alt click/release or double-click/release | Drop a corner anchor |
| Esc | Stop drawing line |
| Click/drag on an existing line segment | Add a smooth anchor to that point. Drops the anchor on release. |
| Option/Alt click/release or double-click/release on existing anchor | Convert the anchor from smooth to corner or visa versa |
Practical Scatterbrush (practical_scatterbrush.ai.zip)
Practical Pattern Brush
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Based on Satori Graphics YouTube Video
A personal set of images in Illustrator based on mosaic medallions in the ceiling of the Chora Church, Istanbul, Turkey (my photos)
My wife and I have moved to a new house in a community called Woods Point, and as a part of preparing for the move I've used Illustrator multiple times to help us with the design of the new house.
The new home has a Craftsman style, so I wanted to design a plaque for our front entry that had our name and address that had that kind of a design feel to it.
woodspoint1389-v07.ai.zip
We only got a rough floor plan, but it had written dimensions on it, so I created a t0-scale floor plan (1inch = 1foot) to help us figure out where we could put things and how they would fit into the to-be-built building
woodspointfloorplan.ai.zip
The developer sent us some horrible photographs of color schemes so we could pick the one we liked. Color is something very hard to get right, but very important to be accurate with. The photos we got were taken with a phone and under whatever kinds of lights they use at the office. They were not accurate, to say the least.
Original photos
Color corrected illustrator version
So I found an online pdf of the rgb values of Sherman William's Paint and created an Illustrator document using them and output it as a pdf so they could use it with their clients.
woodspointcolor.ai.zip woodspointcolor.pdf.zip
