![]() ![]() I think that one looks pretty good, so we'll do another one. So I'll go back on some of these and just drag it a few times just to add some more artifacting to it like that. ![]() It's not about painting nice, it's about capturing an idealistic looking paint stroke because that's what gonna work well. Once you have that, you'll just drag it across and you can see how it makes those nice little artifacts and those streaks, and that's kind of what you want. You don't want it to be too watery, just enough that it's gonna streak. We're gonna mix it with some of the pigment. But once you have paint loaded on your plate, I'm just gonna grab some water here. I usually do that at home so I don't get paint all over the place, but I'm kinda doing it without that today. If you're worried about getting paint all over your hands, you could wear surgical gloves as well. I'm using just simple black acrylic paint, and I'll just put some of this on this plate here. I like to just use a simple white paper plate to put my ink on. That'd just give you more artifacts to work with, that's good too. You could use a textured paper if you wanted. I like to use just simple white bond paper. So I'm gonna go ahead and demonstrate how to paint out these brushes or dry brush with 'em to create the assets that we want to create. The other brushes I have here are just two smaller detailing type brushes, and these will form the line work brushes that we'll then use in Illustrator as well. So we're gonna be using this brush for sure. If you look at the bristles at the end, they're really kind of horrible, but horrible in a good way because, because they're so uneven, it's gonna create a lot of nice artifacting as you drag the pigment across the paper and that's what we want. This is just a one-inch simple paintbrush. The only brush you really need is this one. It's okay for other types of painting, but for this it's too nice, we won't use it. So you don't want to use a nice brush like this. This first brush I want to show you, it's a nice brush but ironically it's too nice to paint with because it's not gonna create all the nice artifacts. It first starts by having your own brushes. But now I want to walk you through the process of creating your own painted brushes. ![]() If you want to check out the digital art on this, you can go to the Exercise Files and you'll be able to zoom in and see how this was digitized. This became the final art for the final logo type of Fearless that the local TEDx event used. This shows how I pasted 'em up on one sheet, and I scanned this in. Now I painted out hundreds of these letters, but when it was all said and done, I then cherry picked the ones that I felt work best. This is some of the Ss I created, and here's some of the Es I created. I did a lot more iterations than this, but this just shows a page of As that I created. This just shows a bunch of As that I painted out. So I set out to hand paint all the letters I would need for the logo type I was designing for the local TEDx event called Fearless. I want to share with you how that project inspired the ability to create brushes for Illustrator. So I decided to approach that in a way that I normally never handle a logo design and that is to create it by hand. In the theme fearless is all about pursuing creativity without worrying about how or the possibility of failure. The theme of the TEDx event was called Fearless. A few years back I was approached by the local TEDx event and they asked me to brand it. That means we're going to literally paint them with a paintbrush in order to capture true-to-life brush strokes we can then digitize. To achieve this level of authenticity, we need to derive our brushes from a real world methodology. When you create your own vector-based brushes in Illustrator, we're going for an authentic look and feel. When it comes to artwork, authenticity simply means it resembles the real deal. The term authentic means of undisputed origin or genuine. ![]()
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