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Published: 2009-03-29 12:56:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 29630; Favourites: 425; Downloads: 5763
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Description During this tutorial we are going to create and use different brush strokes to give a character life in Adobe Illustrator. Specifically creating art brushes and applying them in different colors and thicknesses.

Tools and Palettes covered in this tutorial include, pen tool, covert anchor point, ellipse, color palette, layers palette, transparency palette, brushes palette

feel free to download the pdf and give it a go yourself. You can view the final image here [link]
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Comments: 31

Aymangfx [2014-02-04 21:50:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Jaloe [2013-04-24 02:52:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!!!

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yami-joey [2013-01-28 23:18:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for this! It has really helped me out to learn new things.

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SonikaCreatives [2012-09-16 20:21:50 +0000 UTC]

Gods... I love you!!!!!!
:3
Thank you!
*steals and runs away*
Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

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SonikaCreatives In reply to SonikaCreatives [2012-09-24 13:27:46 +0000 UTC]

Meh! How could I forget to fav it?!!! I'm oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold ;_;

But I fav it now, so I won't forget to give credit :3 Again, thank you!

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andart In reply to SonikaCreatives [2012-09-23 17:59:35 +0000 UTC]

Glad you liked it. I hope you find it useful

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unanalyzed [2012-02-29 04:11:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for this, its very helpful!

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ViolaAtDeviant [2012-01-23 21:55:39 +0000 UTC]

thx!

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Kryione [2011-10-16 09:55:14 +0000 UTC]

YESSSSSS!!!!!!I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS SINCE I GOT A HOLD OF PHOTOSHOP.
Thanks SOOOOOOOO MUCH!

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FantasyStock [2011-02-04 08:04:34 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations on your DD! You've been featured in the article, January 2011 Resources DDs .

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tina1138 [2011-01-24 14:22:17 +0000 UTC]

WOW thanks!!!!!

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ThirdPotato [2011-01-24 05:39:42 +0000 UTC]

Excellent tutorial! So digestible too n.n

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L33mSimPson [2011-01-19 03:54:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much
this should be helpful

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SilverZeo [2011-01-19 03:16:22 +0000 UTC]

Drew Saturday from the secret Saturdays?

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Dojinshi-Mic [2011-01-19 01:33:20 +0000 UTC]

This is very useful! I've learnt how to use illustrator at college recently but they don't show you useful stuff like this! Thank you very much ^^

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DaniGunz [2011-01-18 23:45:21 +0000 UTC]

Great tutorial man i always do this in photoshop because i didnt knew how to in illustrator

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andart In reply to DaniGunz [2011-01-24 05:40:51 +0000 UTC]

glad i could help

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ExpectRoses [2011-01-18 21:18:44 +0000 UTC]

Kewl

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Squidfist [2011-01-18 20:55:41 +0000 UTC]

Meh, not particularly amazing or innovative.

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Hazel23 [2011-01-18 17:48:54 +0000 UTC]

Very innovative! I never thought about using the art brushes in this way. This'll be really handy when I can get a copy of illustrator.

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DarkPrincess1989 [2011-01-18 14:40:24 +0000 UTC]

it's gonna be helpfulll ^^

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aslix [2011-01-18 13:05:35 +0000 UTC]

thanks a lot

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FalyneVarger [2011-01-18 12:29:45 +0000 UTC]

If only I didn't hate Illustrator with a passion.
Inkscape is so much more user friendly. And free.

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MickusTheDutch [2011-01-18 12:17:07 +0000 UTC]

Cool! Clear and really helpful! Thanks

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MadziaVelMadzik [2011-01-18 11:00:56 +0000 UTC]

not working for meh ;__; some error pdf appears ;__;

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0oKatanao0 In reply to MadziaVelMadzik [2011-01-18 17:14:10 +0000 UTC]

Same ;_;

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KenjiArtWorks [2011-01-18 10:33:42 +0000 UTC]

Awesome thank you!

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Silly-m3Shine [2009-05-19 03:19:22 +0000 UTC]

oh, i like it.

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andart In reply to Silly-m3Shine [2009-05-21 05:07:23 +0000 UTC]

thanks glad you like it

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ashirwad [2009-04-07 06:21:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for sharing!

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andart In reply to ashirwad [2009-04-07 17:48:19 +0000 UTC]

no problem

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