Traditional Spiral

[Acorn]

It is possible to combine two or more linear fills to create a brush that goes both ways. I have used two gradient fills with the Repeating Till fill option.

Gary, if nothing, i am getting better at seeing these. This last one is a doozie!

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Practice is good. All that activity is just the result of the two repeating linear fills.

I've also learned over the 25 years I have spent making these images that often less depth is better than extremes of depth.

[DanFelix]

Re the image in post #5: What is the little object in the upper left?

[gwpriester]

Re the image in post #5: What is the little object in the upper left?

Those are the two linear fills I used to make the art brush. I just added them so you can see what they look like in terms of the depth for the stereogram.

The two rectangles also appear on the depth image.

[gwpriester]

Where there's a will, there's a wake. Or way. Or something.

We were discussing how to make an art brush do two things at once, create a rounded spiral shape, and to give the shape a gradation from light to dark. Something I achieved with my first image using a blend of two gradient shapes.

Here is what I came up with.

Create two brushes, one for the shape, and one for the gradation. Put the gradation object on top of the shape and apply a transparency to the gradation.

In this example I also created a bush indented and a brush raised to create what is more like a transparent tube.

[RKissane]

How do you create a raised brush or indented?

Ray

[gwpriester]

The two gradient fill's Fill Tiling options have been set to Repeating. And I applied a Profile 1 profile to smooth out the fill.