Illustrator for Fashion Design: Creating Brushes

2h 42mIntermediate2013-04-25

Authors

Robin Schneider

Educator and Designer working in fashion, television, and tech

Course details

Explore the power of Adobe Illustrator brushes to quickly and easily add detail to your fashion illustrations. This course shows how to create and maximize the use of pattern and scatter brushes; make brushes with start and end tiles; and control brush placement relative to the path for greater control. Packed with creative ideas and inspiration, author Robin Schneider's examples are specifically geared toward fashion design use but the techniques can be applied to any design field.

Learning objectives
Making simple pattern brushes like pin tucks and bias trim
Adding finished ends to your brushes
Controlling brush alignment
Creating ruching and smocking
Using scatter brushes for sequins, fringe, and fur
Creating brushes from JPG images

Skills covered

Fashion DesignIllustrationIllustratorPersonaGraphic DesignAdobeAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Simple Brushes That Save Time

03 - Creating pin tucks
04 - Making boning
05 - Creating bias trim
06 - Making ribbing
07 - Creating twill tape

2. Advanced Brush Control

08 - Adding finished ends to your brushes
09 - Controlling brush alignment relative to a path

3. Chains and Cording Brushes

10 - Making chains
11 - Creating cording
12 - Making braids
13 - Creating linking chains - Pattern brush
14 - Making shoelaces

4. Ruching and Ruffles

15 - Creating ruching
16 - More ways to create ruching
17 - Making smocking
18 - Making elastic in casing
19 - Creating a ruffle

5. Fancy Trimmings

20 - Making sequins
21 - Creating fancy sequins
22 - Creating rhinestones
23 - Creating studs
24 - Making a fringe
25 - Creating a beaded fringe
26 - Creating fur
27 - Creating fur trim
28 - Making a pom-pom fringe

6. Lace and Sparkle

29 - Prepping a JPEG image to use as a brush in Illustrator
30 - Making mock lace
31 - Creating lace from actual lace
32 - Creating eyelet lace
33 - Making embroidered lace

Conclusion

34 - Next steps