When you think of photographic paint brush effects, you don’t usually think of Adobe Illustrator… but in this video, we’ll take a look at how Illustrator can harness both vector and raster imagery to create full-color, detailed paint brush strokes. It's an awesome for generating typography, but that’s just the start. With this same method, we can generate brushes from just about anything….
Free download of the brushes used in this video:
texturelabs.org/tutorials/sampling-real-paint-with…
(plus a ton of other free stuff on the new-and-improved Texturelabs site!)
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I found femur bone image here:
www.skullsunlimited.com/products/real-human-femur
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00:00:00 In this video…
00:00:48 Getting Started
00:01:30 Illustrator Basics: Creating and Editing Paths
00:03:17 Images as Brushes
00:04:00 Useful Tips
00:06:50 Controlling the Brush
00:07:58 Refining the Details
00:09:22 Creating Brushes
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