shortcuts: many
Today, one of the people on the Astute Graphics slack posted a spreadsheet they’d made to analyze the text generated when you hit ‘export text’ in Illustrator’s keyboard shortcut prefs. I, uh, kind of...
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Total Peganthyrus Vortex
that moment when the drugs kick in and you realize that there is absolutely nothing in the universe except you and your infinite reflections So one of the things I do to put off getting work done is to...
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How to quickly make a repeating pattern brush from a long image, without wasting your time swearing at the Pathfinder palette. Draw a funny little alligator. Or a pickle. Or a snake. Or an abstract...
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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....
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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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