Celtic Knot Brushes with Artlandia SymmetryWorks Adobe Illustrator Tips, Tricks and Tutorials Celtic Knot Brushes with Artlandia SymmetryWorks Home Vector vs Raster? Tips and Tutorials Resources Northlite Designs Cards & Prints Gallery Expression About Me Contact Me Celtic Knot Brushes Using Artlandia SymmetryWorks and simple text you can make brushes reminiscent of Celtic Knots. These brushes work great for borders! If you don’t have the …

This tutorial was done using Adobe Illustrator 10. Artlandia SymmetryWorks is a new filter that also works with Illustrator 9, and this tutorial will work with version 9 also. Open a new document in Illustrator. Constructing the Tiles The first thing we need to do is to construct a couple tiles with Artandia SymmetryWorks to use for the brushes. Click on the text tool in the tools palette or type T to activate it. Choose a simple non-serif font. A serif font is one that has the decorative lines on the character. Times New Roman and Garamond are serif fonts. Fonts like Myriad, Helvetica and Arial are non-serif fonts Type an uppercase R. I’m using Myriad at 72 points, black. Click on the letter with the selection tool (V) to get the bounding box and turn it into outlines by going to Type > Create Outlines. Change the fill to red (or color of your choice) and the stroke to black. Make two duplicates of the R and set them aside. Select the R with the select arrow (V) and go to Object > SymmetryWorks > Make. It will use the same pattern you used last time. You can change it by clicking on the patterns in the Artlandia SymmetryWorks palette. I chose pattern 17, Kaleidoscope. This design will be used for corner tiles when we construct the brush. We need side tiles now, so select one of the copies of the R you made, and go to Object > SymmetryWorks > Make. For this one I used pattern 9 Double Mirror. We need to rotate this 90°. Go to Object > Transform > Rotate and type 90 in the input box….. alone. That can always be adjusted later. Click OK. The screenshot is from Illustrator 10. If you have Illustrator 9, you’ll see the side tile in three spaces instead of two. These two slots make up the side tiles of the brush. If we were to use the brush now, it would look like this on a square. We have to add the corner pieces.

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