Illustrator for Fashion Design: Creating Brushes

Explore the power of Illustrator brushes to quickly and easily add detail to your fashion illustrations.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Simple Brushes That Save Time

• Creating pin tucks
• Making boning
• Creating bias trim
• Making ribbing
• Creating twill tape

2. Advanced Brush Control

• Adding finished ends to your brushes
• Controlling brush alignment relative to a path

3. Chains and Cording Brushes

• Making chains
• Creating cording
• Making braids
• Creating linking chains: Pattern brush
• Making shoelaces

4. Ruching and Ruffles

• Creating ruching
• More ways to create ruching
• Making smocking
• Making elastic in casing
• Creating a ruffle

5. Fancy Trimmings

• Making sequins
• Creating fancy sequins
• Creating rhinestones
• Creating studs
• Making a fringe
• Creating a beaded fringe
• Creating fur
• Creating fur trim
• Making a pom-pom fringe

6. Lace and Sparkle

• Prepping a JPEG image to use as a brush in Illustrator
• Making mock lace
• Creating lace from actual lace
• Creating eyelet lace
• Making embroidered lace

Conclusion

• Next steps