Posts Tagged with Illustrator Brushes
Happy Monday everyone. How about some free stuff! Our friends at Designious.com have just released their Design Cocktail Bundle 3, and I have 10 bundles to give away! The bundle includes 5 Mega Vector Packs, 20 Packs of Photoshop Brushes, 3D Sketch Font, Set of 1000 vector illustrations, as well as several HTML templates, a WordPress theme, and some T-Shirt Templates. An overall value of $904, for $29, but now is your chance to grab it for free. Be sure to read the rules, and good luck :)
It’s always nice to see people put BB freebies to good use, but there’s no way to spot them all. I was flipping through Rolling Stone over the weekend and spotted some of my Illustrator brushes (teardrop foliage) in an ad for Bonnaroo 2008, a huge music & arts festival in Tennessee.
This is a very quick Illustrator CS3 tip that will hopefully save you some time in the long run. I’m sure a lot of you, if not all of you, know how to load a Brush Library. There are 3 ways, actually, but my favorite, and quickest way is the Brush Library icon.
![Illustrator: Load Brush Libraries Faster [CS3]](/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/faster_illustrator_brushes_2.jpg "Illustrator: Load Brush Libraries Faster [CS3]")
In this tutorial, I’m going to cover several things that effect the way we use Illustrator brushes. Remember, there are 4 types of Illustrator brushes, and this tutorial will be covering “Art” brushes. There are many things that effect the way your brush stroke will take form, and I hope by the end of this tutorial, you have a better idea of what you can tweak to get the results you’re looking for when using your art brushes.
Workflow is always important for productivity. Avoiding as many clicks as possible is an everyday battle, and, with this little Illy tip, I hope to help you avoid yet another 3 clicks. For some reason, the folks at Adobe decided that Illustrator shouldn’t have a ‘Preset Manager’ like Photoshop, so here we are working around it. I’d like to share with you one way I get around a lack-of-a-preset-manager in Illustrator when it comes to brushes.
I’ve got another set of Illustrator brushes for everyone. I previously released these shapes as vectors, but decided to go ahead an make a brush library out of them. I hope you can put them to good use. Screenshot after the jump.
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