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- springbok
Afternoon all,
I am trying to make a line in illustrator go from one stroke thickness to another i.e. thick to thin
like the one in the image.
I did this using a blend but that isnt going to work.
anyone know of a way?
- ESKEMA0
use a shape instead of a stroke
- creative-0
I think you may have to make a brush. How, I don't know, but it's a start...
- indian_pole0
i think you're gonna have to draw it with vector points.
- springbok0
thing is I wanted to give the line some kind of depth as it snakes off into the distance? so will be quite hard to do drawing each line
- drgs0
draw tiny rectangle with different thick left and thin right side, and stretch it 200000% in width
- drgs0
then cmd+z, and make this rectagnle a brush
- ESKEMA0
just make the stroke then expand and delete one corner
- neverblink0
draw a triangle.. like so: /\ (ofcourse with bottom)
select it, drag it to the brushes window. It'll ask what kind of brush you want to make, select Art brush.. select the direction it eneds to go in (with drawing direction or against, or on a 90 degrees angle) draw with it.- btw make sure the triangle is filled black and has no strokeneverblink
- springbok0
awesome, cheers neverblink
- neverblink0
you can adjust the width of the stroke by double clicking the Bursh in the brushes window and adjust width there. And if you want it to have a colour other than black (or the colour your original shape had). You can set it in that same window - at the bottom - colouring = tints
- mmatthews0
This plugin would be overkill for what you're trying to do, but seems like an opportunity to mention it...
http://www.01-lab.com/livepen.ht…Have been playing with this here and there for a week or so now, just became available for CS3. Worth a look...