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paintbrush full of stars
what’re you up to peggy? oh nothing much, just getting stoned and making a pressure-sensitive star brush out of Astute’s Stipplism effect and their Dynamic Sketch tool not shown: stroke is a circular...
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graphic styles for comics production
So right now I am working on a 13-page comic about a lady magician and her demon sidekick getting into trouble at a rave that 2016 me roughed out. 2022 me found it recently and decided it’s still good,...
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grainy blur effect
I saw a post on /r/adobeillustrator asking how to make something like this. It’s pretty easy. Draw a shape in dark grey. Opacity: 20% screen. Effect>pixelate>mezzotint. I used “grainy dots” for...
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Illustrator: repeating lines cropped to a shape.
Here’s another of those “someone asked an interesting question on the Illustrator subreddit” posts. They wanted to know how to automatically fill a shape with a pattern brush that looked like...
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Pride flag brushes for Adobe Illustrator
I needed this, and I couldn’t find it within five minutes of searching, so I went to Wikipedia’s list of LGBT pride flags and snagged all the SVGs and turned them into a bunch of Illustrator brushes....
View Articlefixing an Illustrator bug: blend open paths with a spline
Illustrator has this annoying behavior where it only generates a spline for a blend if one or more of the paths being blended are closed. My working method is such that I almost never generate closed...
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from the effects tag: luminous overlapping squares
There’s been an image floating around on the Illustrator subreddit (a still from this looping animation, it turns out) with a lot of stabs at duplicating it in Illustrator. Today, a pretty good...
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experiments, 2023
I just spent a few minutes going back through the ‘experiments’ tag in my filesystem for this year, which is where I store the results of playing around with techniques, sometimes because I have an...
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walkies (2)
So on the Illustrator subreddit, a challenge was issued: what can you do with just one circle? Well, I can do this. Custom brushes were allowed for this particular challenge as long as they were a...
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