Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you
how to create a stipple grain texture brush for shading in Adobe Illustrator. All right,
let's get started. Ok, so if you're wondering what I mean by stipple texture, I'm talking about the
type of texture that's shown in these images like, here on the hat, just kind of stipple shading.
You can see it here on the ball. So we're going to learn how to create a brush that will do this.
All right, let's go to Illustrator. And I'll come over here to Create New.
I'll choose Print up here at the top, and then choose Letter here. And then we'll Create. And
now I want my texture to be somewhat small. So I'm just going to zoom into the upper left corner.
And now I'm going to draw some little random shapes. I'm just going to create four.
I'll hit N on my keyboard, and I'll just draw the first one. And I didn't get it all the way closed,
so I'm going to hit CMD J to close it. And then I'll just kind of smooth it out.
It's almost a circle. So the next one, I'm going to have a little bit longer like this.
We'll join that one also. And I'm going to smooth this out. I'm toggling to the Smooth
tool by holding OPT or ALT on a PC. That will get you to the Smooth tool right over here.
When you're on the Pencil tool, the N tool, you can hold OPT and just smooth things out.
Ok, so I've got my four little shapes, and I'm just going to hit D on my keyboard to get a white
fill and a black outline. And then I'll switch those with SHIFT X. I'll click on my white,
and then just get rid of that by hitting the question mark and backslash key. And now I'm going
to create a new layer. So I'll click on my Layers panel. If you don't see some of these panels, you
can get to those under Window. So Window>Layers is right here. And now I'm going to create a
new layer. I'll pull this one underneath the other layer, and then I'll click on that layer. And I'm
going to hit L to get on my Circle tool. And I'll just hold SHIFT and draw a circle. I want this to
be a stroke only. So I'm going to hit Shift X to get just the stroke. I'm going to put my stroke at
.5, and, by the way, if you're not seeing this up here, that is right here, Window> Control.
And of course, you can also get to your stroke in your Window, too. Ok, so we've got our circle on
layer two. And I'm just going to lock that. Now I'll get back on layer one, and my goal here is
to copy these shapes until they fill up the circle, I might want it to be a little bit
smaller. So I'm holding OPT or ALT to make a copy. And then I'll just move these around and try to
randomize them a little bit. It can be a little hard to do that. I think that's one of the harder
things to do as a designer is trying to make a random pattern. And I'll speed up the video so you
don't have to sit through all this. So basically, I want them all the way out to the edge.
Now to get a little more rotation in there, I'm hitting SHIFT OPT, CMD D. That's SHIFT ALT CTRL
D on a PC and changing my angle. And this will change the angle of each piece, not the whole
thing together. So, that's kind of nice. Now I'm going to delete layer two.
And this is pretty good. This is looking about like what I'm hoping for. I think I'll select all
the pieces and just move them over a little bit. And now I'm going to take some of the pieces from
the middle and put them kind of out on the edge a little bit. So we'll just do that. I'm looking
for areas that are kind of a little crowded, maybe like this, these pieces out here help to give it
kind of a more random look. Ok, now I'm going to select everything. And I'll open my Brushes panel:
Window>Brushes, and I'm just going to click and drag this into my Brush panel.
We want a new Scatter Brush. So I'll say Ok, and then we'll get this dialog box. Now we
want to randomize our Spacing and our Rotation. So I'm going to change both of those to Random.
I'm going to set our minimum spacing at 15
and our maximum at 25. And then for Rotation, I'll set the minimum at minus 145 and positive 145.
And then for the Method, I want to choose Tints. This will allow us to choose a color with a brush.
Otherwise it'll kind of be stuck at black. Ok, so we'll say OK. You can see our little brush right
up here. Now I'm going to draw a circle so I'll hit L on my keyboard to get to my Circle tool.
I'll click and drag and hold SHIFT, and I'm just going to change this to blue, and then I'm going
to make a copy of this, and Paste in Front, with CMD F or CTRL F. So I have two blue circles right
on top of each other. And now I'm going to choose Draw Inside, which is this third little button
at the bottom of your toolbar. So when we do this, it'll give us these kind of dotted lines
outside our shape, and that means it's a draw inside object. So I want to choose our brush.
And I'm going to double click on my stroke color. We'll make this quite a bit darker. And say, Ok,
and now I'll hit N on my keyboard to get to my Pencil tool. I'm just going to draw right
along here, to give it kind of a shaded look. As you can see, it is really big,
so there are two things we can do. We can reduce the size of our stroke to about .25
or .3, until we get the look we want. Instead of doing that, I like to just resize the brush
itself, so that I don't always have to change it. So I'm going to hit S to get to my Scale tool,
and then Enter or Return to get to the options. So I'm going to scale this by 33%. We'll say
OK, and now I'm just going to drag this into my brush panel and hold OPT to replace this brush.
We'll say OK, and then it'll ask us "Do we want to apply it to the strokes we've already made?"
We'll say Apply. And it'll change this one to 1/3 of what it is, roughly. So now we can put this at
one point, and it should be a little more what we're looking for. I'm going to zoom in on this,
and we can see how this looks. Now before we get too much further, we want to save our brush. So
I'm going to get over here on the side. So first, I'm going to go to my Brushes and just select all
the unused ones, and just delete those. So we'll be left with our basic brushes and our new brush.
And now I'm going to come over to the flyout and choose Save Brush Library. And I'll just save this
as Stipple. If we close this document, and we open a new document, we don't lose our stipple brush.
We can load it by coming right over here and going to Open Brush Library> User Defined and
here it is, Stipple. So what if you want to add a stipple brush across multiple shapes? With a
draw-inside object, you can only do that with one shape at a time. So I'll show you how to do this
with a bird that I downloaded from Vecteezy. I'm opening my bird. I'm just going to copy
and paste him into my document. And he's coming in into the paste inside object, so I'm going
to undo, and I'll get back on my regular draw normal mode. Now I'll paste my bird in again,
and I think I want the shading to come right down here along the underside of his belly. So
to do that, I can't draw inside on each of these shapes. That would just take too long. So I'm
going to make a copy. I'll paste in front with CMD F or CTRL F. And then I'm just going to Pathfinder
unite this. So I've got my Pathfinder window right over here. And I'll do the first Shape Mode, which
is Unite. It'll change the whole thing to one of the colors, which is fine. I'm just going to
click on the fill and get rid of it with my question mark or backslash key. So now I have a no
fill and no stroke shape in the shape of the bird. Now I'm going to draw inside this shape. So I'm
going to click that and I'll get on my stipple brush. And my stipple brush right now is orange,
so I want to change that. I'll just choose black. Then I'll hit N to get on my Pencil tool.
I'm going to start right up here and just draw around his belly like this. I'll zoom
in a little bit, and I'll just adjust this a little. This should be rounded a little more.
I can also smooth this brush out by holding OPT or ALT while on my Pencil tool to get to my
Smooth tool. So we have our shading now. I think I'm going to increase this to 1.5 or 1.3. Ok,
that looks good. I want these dots on the orange part of the beak to be kind of a darker orange.
I want these parts to be blue. So we can use Multiply to do this. So in my Appearance panel,
I can click on my Opacity and change that to 40 or so. And then I can change Normal to Multiply.
And when we zoom in, you can see it's just a darker orange. It matches what color's
underneath it a little better. Ok, and because we made this in the way we did, if we pull this over,
we have the shading separate from the colors here. So I'm going to undo that. I'm going to go
back to draw normal. And then I'm going to select everything and just group it with CMD G or CTRL G.
So that's how to create and use a stipple brush
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