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

The path is painted with the Lights brush. Because the path does not include sharp corners,

outer-corner and inner-corner tiles are not applied to the path.

Editing the Pattern brush

Now you’ll edit the Lights Pattern brush using a pattern swatch that you create.

Tip

For more information on creating pattern swatches, see "About patterns” in Illustrator

Help.

1. 
   

   Choose 3 from the Active Artboard menu in the Properties panel to navigate to the third
   artboard with the light bulb artwork on it.

   
   


2. 
   

   Choose Window > Swatches to open the Swatches panel.

   
   


3. 
   

   With the Selection tool ( ), drag the artwork with the white light bulb into the Swatches
   panel.

   
   

The artwork is saved as a new pattern swatch in the Swatches panel. After you create a pattern

brush, you can delete the pattern swatches from the Swatches panel, if you don’t plan to use

them for additional artwork.