Quick Tip: How to Make a Feather Brush in Adobe Illustrator
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Quick Tip: How to Make a Feather Brush in Adobe Illustrator

on Nov 26th 2012 with 21 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Difficulty: Basic
  • Program Used: Adobe Illustrator CS6
  • Video Length: 3:15

This video will focus on the creation of a Feather Brush in Adobe Illustrator CS6, and although this tutorial is created with AI CS6, these techniques will transfer to legacy versions. This tutorial is a great introduction to custom brush creation. Let’s begin!

 
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Mike Austin aka HumanNature84 is an Illustrator and Concept artist specializing in the Vector medium. A California native, he now calls Texas his home. He also the creator of Vectology.com. You can also follow him on Twitter and Facebook.  

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  • http://twitter.com/ParasUniversal Parasuniversal.com

    Love the creativity

    • Mike Austin
      Author

      Thank you!

      • http://www.facebook.com/manu.gmz2 Manu Gmz

        what did you do at the end that made it look like it’s painted?

      • Mike Austin
        Author
      • http://www.facebook.com/manu.gmz2 Manu Gmz

        i didn’t even know there was a wrinkle tool ;))

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrea.webbkesavan Andrea Webb-Kesavan

    This was awesome, ingenious! Cant wait to try it out. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/cdurruty Claudio Durrughy

    Hey man! I can’t see nothing, please!
    more resolution in the vids.Thanks in advance :)

    • Mike Austin
      Author

      The Video is in 720 per Vector tuts rules. Thanks for the suggestion though :)

  • manu

    great, but what was that at the end? tracing or what?

  • Heather t.

    Wowwwwwwwww!

    • Mike Austin
      Author

      Thanks!!!

  • Simon

    I cant do it right, can you explain the tutorial in the writing? thank you

  • Nicholas Steel

    This looks beautiful and I’m trying to give it a go, I’m falling at one of the first hurdles though. When I use the blend tool I end up with a flat grey elipse slightly larger than the small opaque black shape. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks :)

    • Nicholas Steel

      It’s ok i looked at the video on Youtube and the comments section was remarkably helpful! There are some fantastic people out there! Thanks again for this tutorial, it is awesome!

    • Mike Austin
      Author

      Hello! I made an explanation video to clear up a few things!http://youtu.be/bbepRVIAwGI

  • royghost

    hey Mike, is good, but you talk very soft can’t hear what you say?????

    • Mike Austin
      Author

      Sorry, I will speak louder next time :P

  • sanjay

    very much effective

  • mohamed

    good work man

  • Morgan Baker

    So effective! Thanks.