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

Note

The brush you apply is an art brush, which means that it stretches artwork along the

path. The brush artwork is scaled on the path based on the stroke (border) weight.

10. 
    

    Click the X in the corner of the Artistic_Ink panel to close it.

    
    


11. 
    

    Select the Selection tool ( ), and pressing the Shift key, click the red path of the squirrel
    artwork to select the paths in the tail and the squirrel. Choose Object > Group to keep it all
    together.

    
    

Aligning artwork

Illustrator makes it easy to align or distribute multiple objects relative to each other, the artboard,

or a key object. In this section, you’ll move all of the artwork into position and align some of it

to the center of the artboard.

Note

Learn more about aligning artwork in Lesson 2, “Techniques for Selecting Artwork.

1. Choose Object > Show All to show all of the previously hidden artwork.

2. With the Selection tool ( ) selected, drag each object into position like you see in the figure. It

doesn’t have to match exactly.