Using Brushes to Create a Poster - Adobe Illustrator CC - page 608

4 . What must be done to a raster image in order for it to be used in certain brushes?
5 . For which brush types must you have artwork selected on the artboard before you
can create a brush?
6 . What does the Blob Brush tool (

) allow you to create?

Review answers
1 . When painting with the Paintbrush tool ( ), if a brush is chosen in the Brushes
panel and you draw on the artboard, the brush is applied directly to the paths as
you draw. To apply brushes using a drawing tool, you select the tool and draw in
the artwork. Then you select the path in the artwork and choose a brush in the
Brushes panel. The brush is applied to the selected path.
2 . An Art brush is made from artwork (vector or embedded raster). When you apply
an Art brush to the stroke of an object, the artwork in the Art brush, by default, is
stretched along the selected object stroke.
3 . To edit a path with the Paintbrush tool, drag over a selected path to redraw it. The
Keep Selected option keeps the last path selected as you draw with the Paintbrush
tool. Leave the Keep Selected option selected when you want to easily edit the pre-
vious path as you draw. Deselect the Keep Selected option when you want to draw
layered paths with the paintbrush without altering previous paths. When Keep
Selected is deselected, you can use the Selection tool ( ) to select a path and then

edit it.
4 . In order to be used in certain brushes (Art, Pattern, and Scatter), a raster image
must be embedded.
5 . For Art and Scatter brushes, you need to have artwork selected in order to create a
brush using the New Brush button ( ) in the Brushes panel.
6 . Use the Blob Brush tool ( ) to edit filled shapes that you can intersect and merge
with other shapes of the same color or to create artwork from scratch.