Traditional Spiral

[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.

[Egg Bramhill]

Very impressive Gary.