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JACKMORE
Lisa Jackmore
Lisa Jackmore created variations within her pattern brush using Variable Width
Profile. She began by drawing the bottle, the text, one set of necklace links, and the
blue bead with a Calligraphic brush and pressure-sensitive pen and tablet. For the
heart bead she scanned a stone, then masked it in Photoshop. Jackmore then
placed the PNG image of the stone heart onto the artboard in Illustrator, then in the
Control panel clicked the Embed link and scaled the image proportionally.
Jackmore aligned the beaded elements to the heart, dragged them together into
the Brushes panel, and selected Pattern brush, keeping all the default settings.
Jackmore chose the Paintbrush tool, made a circular path, and clicked on the
Pattern brush to apply it to the path. To suggest perspective and slightly vary bead
size, she selected the path, switched to the Width tool, and then selected several
