EXPANDING BRUSHED AND SELECTING SAME ITEMS (WITH RUFFLE)

EXPANDING BRUSHED AND SELECTING SAME ITEMS (WITH RUFFLE)

EXPANDING BRUSH
Make it into a repeat:
1. Copy and paste ruffle, dragging opposite ends together to see how they match.
2.  Use white arrow to delete one end of the ruffle so you can start to match it to the other end of the ruffle. (square it off).
3. Repeat with this ruffle for the other end.
4. Turn fill off.
5. Use white arrow to fix the rest of the frill in.
6. Select top line and bottom line of frill and copy and paste.
7. Join the ends of these lines to create a SHAPE.
8. Turn outline off so that the shaoe is just a white fill colour.
9. Drag white shape over original frill and 'send to back'.
10. Group together.
11. Push grey bits to the back by:

• double click into the group
• use white arrow to select ONE of the grey shapes
• select-same-fill colour
• right click-send to back

NOTE: If this doesnt work, ungroup and try again.

12. Make the brush by:

• New brush-pattern brush-ok
• method-tints-ok

If the brush comes out with a white fill, go back to ruffle and ensure that fill is turned off everything but the white shape...re-save brush and it shoudl work.

COLOURING THE INSIDE OF THE BRUSH
For whatever drawing you do, when you are 100% happy, you group the image and copy and paste before inserting colour.

for brush, you need to change it from being a brush into an artwork.
To do this

• select brush-object-expand appearance (this will group ruffle)
• double click on group-select white-change fill colour

FILL WILL BE LEFT ON SINGLE LINES
Delete these by:

• white arrow
• select one white mark
• select-same- fill colour
• press delete

Repeat for grey areas.

COLOURING (WITH METAL ZIP BRUSH)

select brush-object-expand appearance
click one metal tooth
select-same-fill colour
change colour
click gradient (you can adjust settings using buttons in the gradient box to achieve your desired effect)

NOTE: Gradient tool is great for all metal details and shading for the inside of garments on technical sketches.

You can also change the colour of the gradient by clicking on the colour box in the gradient menu and select the appropriate swatch.