Creating scatter brushes in Illustrator

David Karlins

Scatter brushes in Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 are intuitively named. They scatter a pattern along a path. Thinking of a leaf blower being pushed across a lawn gives you a sense of the chaos you can generate by using a scatter brush stroke to create a path of objects.

You might use a scatter brush, for instance, to populate a field of stars (Figure 1).

Figure 1: A star field being drawn using an art brush.

You can draw interactively with a scatter brush, or you can apply a scatter brush pattern to an existing path.

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