Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

Note

To learn about guidelines for creating brushes, see "Create or modify brushes” in

Illustrator Help (Help > Illustrator Help).

1. 
   

   Choose 2 from the Active Artboard menu in the Properties panel to navigate to the second
   artboard with the tree artwork on it.

   
   


2. 
   

   With the Selection tool ( ) selected, click the tree artwork to select it.

   
   

Tip

You can create an Art brush from a raster image. The image you use to create the brush

must be embedded in the Illustrator document.

Next you’ll make an Art brush from the selected artwork. You can make an Art brush from

vector artwork or from embedded raster images, but that artwork must not contain gradients,

blends, other brush strokes, mesh objects, graphs, linked files, masks, or text that has not been

converted to outlines.

3. Choose Window > Brushes to open the Brushes panel, if it isn’t open already. With the tree