Today we’ll be going through the process of creating a set of Adobe Illustrator brushes that will allow you to easily duplicate the look of a marker stroke. We recently released a set of marker brushes for Vandelay Premier members, and in this tutorial we’ll show how you can create your own. What you’ll need: A piece of thick white paper or photo paper A dark marker A scanner Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator We’ll be making these Illustrator brushes by creating some strokes with the marker on paper. Then we will scan them and do some basic editing in Photoshop before moving to Illustrator to vectorize the image and create the brushes. At the end we’ll show how to compile the brushes and save them as a set that can be easily distributed or stored for your own use at a later time. Step 1: Creating the Strokes I’ll be using a dark blue Sharpie chisel tip marker that you can purchase just about anywhere that sells office supplies or art suppli...
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