- [Instructor] In the previous two movies I've shown logos
that rely upon multiple off-set parts
or working with striped patterns.
Which made me think that I should address the issue
of how to create an art brush and then, specifically,
how we create the interlocking effect
that we see in the example on the right.
Might be especially useful if you need
to introduce some sort of knot motif into your logo.
So I'm going to now switch to my second blank art board
and start by creating the art brush.
And I'm just going to draw myself a single straight line,
to which I will apply an eight point black stroke.
I'm then going to duplicate that,
moving the line a specific distance,
eight points, and making a copy.
Then I'll press Command or Control + D seven times
to give me a total of nine lines.
Let's now zoom in and I'll press Command or Control + Y
to switch to my outline view mode.
That's just going to make it slightly easier
to select every other line.
Holding down the Shift key and making that white.
So now back to my preview view mode.
There's the basis for my art brush.
I'll select this, come to my brushes panel,
and drag this onto the brushes panel and choose art brush.
I'm going to change the direction from bottom to top.
Click okay.
I'll zoom out.
Let's now apply that to a circle shape.
And I'll now draw myself a knot using the pencil tool.
And optionally I might then just want to smooth that.
I'll now apply my brush to it and here we see the problem.
Weird things happen where the overlap occurs.
The fix is to choose your scissors tool and break that path
so that we now actually have two separate paths.
Simple as that.
So that's how you can achieve an overlapping effect
or interlocking effect using an art brush.