Premium Tutorial: Illustrator Rope Brush

By Tony Soh

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How to Make Rope Brush in Illustrator

Making a rope brush can be very tricky if you are creating from scratch. In this tutorial, I will be showing you my secret technique of making a brush rope easily. Step by step, I will show you how to create the pattern for the rope and move on to making the rope ends. Finally, we will apply the rope brush a path to create a pile of rope.

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Difficulty: Intermediate
Requirements: Adobe Illustrator

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Tutorial Preview:

16. I will hide the blue box for now. Go to Layers Palette and find your blue box. Click on the eye icon to hide the layer. Here is our final rope. Open up your Stroke Palette (Window>Stroke). Select 3 pt for Weight and select Round Caps for it.

17. Now go Object>Expand to expand it.

18. Open up your Pathfinder (Window>Pathfinder). Hold Alt/Option and click Add to Shape. Change the rope lines from black to dark brown after that.

19. We will now fill the inside with brown color. Draw a brown rectangle and send it to the back of the rope. Select both and open your Pathfinder. Choose Trim and ungroup it by pressing Ctrl/Command+G. Delete the unwanted piece surrounding it and you will be left with the rope.

20. Go to Layers Palette and turn your blue box on again. Select both the box and rope and click Divide from Pathfinder Palette (Window>Pathfinder). By default, it will be grouped after Dividing. Press Ctrl/Command+G to ungroup. Then, delete the unwanted pieces left over by the blue box.

21. This diagram illustrates the different parts for our new pattern brush. The Start tile will appear from the start of the rope. The Side tile will be the part that will be repeated. And the End tile will show up at the end of the rope.

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About The Author: Tony Soh

Hi. I'm the founder of Vector Diary. Illustrator is my passion and I have written numerous tutorials on illustrator helping people learn illustrator. My most popular tutorial on learn illustrator has been a hit. It makes learning illustrator so easy and has benefited more than 20,000 people worldwide. Also, I've revealed some of my secret techniques in the premium tutorials. So don't forget to check it out!

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+Add Comment18 Comments

1. 
   Sean Hodge July 1st

   Tony, great tutorial. The steps are details and the effect are unique and fun. Thanks.

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   LadyAngora July 1st

   fabulous tutorial! creating these types of brushes is something i’ve not been bold enough to try alone, but your tutorial makes the process much less scary… and the weaving thing is something i’ve often wondered how to do; now i know!

3. 
   bsilvia July 4th

   This is great tutorial, very easy to follow. Now I can use my new skill learned here in my graphic designs

   Thanks T!

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   Asmaa' July 14th

   Hi Tony , Great tutorial!! , and great presentation! very impressive . I downloaded the pattern one and it is great as well! keep up the good work!

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   raajcena September 8th

   thanks.
   for this tutorial, very impressive

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   Renata Kattel March 5th

   Thank you so much for this clear and useful tutorial!
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   how to download

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   Sabina Karimova January 14th

   Great tutorial! Thanks

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   ayushi gupta August 21st

   It was wounder tutorial……..

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    it was wounderful tutorial………….

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    lora October 13th

    Thanks for this tutorial. it is vary helpful for me.

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    Helen Almberg October 19th

    I have a premium membership but cannot download this tutorial! ???

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    hila rozilyo November 13th

    Daer Tony,
    Thanx for the tutorial
    I just could’nt drag the brush tips to the brush 6th window
    why is that?

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    Brenda Grafton March 12th

    How do I upgrade to premium.

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    Tony Soh March 14th

    Send a ticket to support and I will do the upgrade for you.

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