Okay, I’ve got a cool way to use brushes in Adobe Illustrator. In this example, I will use a border element from TheVectorLab set, Borders 001. The important thing to note is that your element must repeat horizontally.
Step 1)
Select your element and drag it into your brush palette.
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TheVectorLab on Behance – A great portfolio [...]
It’s really exciting for me to come across a real-world example of TheVectorLab graphics being put to use! I was walking down to the beach to go surfing in San Clemente a few months ago and for some reason this sign looked curiously familiar. Then I realized that the California typography, palm trees, and seagulls [...]
GigPosters is a site that has a huge collection of rock & roll and music ‘gig’ posters for sale. They currently have more than 100,000 posters featuring more than 95,000 bands. Whenever I am in a design rut, this is one of the sites I go to for design and illustration inspiration!
Bittbox offers a ton of free vectors, textures, and other design resources. Check out their website. Jay posted these for me a while back. I plan on sending them more free stuff soon. I will keep you posted…
Testing Twitter Tools – Wordpress plugin for my upcoming blog. Synchronizes twitter & blog postings.
First, let me say that I have no financial interest whatsoever in Vector Magic. It is a wonderful bitmap to vector conversion tool that I have found to work much better than the LiveTrace function in Adobe Illustrator. I happened to come across it a few years ago when it was still a completely free [...]
