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I was curious if anyone has figured out a good way to get a 'chisel tip' style line out of the line tools? I tried making my own brush and haven't been successful as of yet. I fear the only way to go is either get really good at calligraphy myself and just use the shape painter set up as chisel tip or do a sketch on paper and trace it out by hand with lines.
Any suggestions?
You could start with a thin rounded rectangle a 450 angle and make it as a Scatter Brush.
Then edit the Rotation to remove Rotate along pah and resave.
Craft your prose and possibly apply Smoothing or even Convert Line to Shape to reduce the jaggies.
Acorn
Thanks, I didn't think to use scatter, I just thought 'art brush, cause it's an art tool!' lol Much appreciated, exactly what I needed!
you may also need to adjust spacing
something like this:
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[it is called unnamed brush in the file]
... you can also use the shape builder tool for this adjusting the roundness and angle accordingly - you will of course then get a shape not a line, but can be useful- ok re-reading I see you have got there already :D
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Originally Posted by handrawn
Haven't looked at what you made just yet, but this is my result thus far and 95% exactly what I was trying to figure out how to do! :)
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looks good - mine is just a basic brush...
Zero to hero in under an hour.
Acorn
Had to try it for myself Acorn, Love it. Never have used a scatter brush, learn something new. Will definitely add this to things I will use in Xara!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
GJ, great.
For those with only XWD(P), remember there is a free XDPXv5 available with Scatter Brushes for you to enjoy.
Acorn
a tip - make the brush with a named colour - that way it will respect the set colour in the program and use it when you draw, and you do not have open the dialog to change the colour afterwards...
What I do is create Brush, draw with it and then Edit Brush as you have to change the Rotation. At the same time in Fill Properties, untick Till fills & set Local colours replace All brush colours.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
Acorn
I am old fashioned - i don't like having to edit a stroke after I have made it - call it pride, I spent five years learning how to get a freehand stroke right first time, post editing time is wasted time [end of rant .... :)]
therefore stands to reason I would want to select the colour for the stroke before I draw it...
I just needed something to speed up the process to get flexible calligraphy strokes. I personally just retrace the strokes by hand, it's more or less I wanted something that can get the feel easily by editing lines. Again, thanks for pointing me to scatter. I never would've thought of that...maybe that name needs some reconsideration...or get rid of the two versions of brushes...once you're in one mode, you don't see the other mode's options. I know they don't have anything to do with each other, but a mode tab and just one collection of tabs would be helpful so an option like this wouldn't be missed by a knucklehead like me. :)
scatter goes back to the beginnings of the program, it is a reference to the stroke being made up of discrete objects, the distribution of which can be scattered around as the stroke is drawn as defined in the edit brush dialog
art brushes are a later addition - the stroke is only made of one object [which can be a group] that can be either stretched, scaled, or repeated in a fixed pattern...