Illustrator Trick #5: Art Brush Direction

By Tony Soh

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Here is a quick tip to change art brush direction. Sometimes when you apply your custom art brush to your path, it goes in the wrong direction. So here’s how to swap the direction, using your Pen Tool, click one of the anchor corners again and it will swap the direction. Simple as that!

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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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1. 
   anna christina March 18th

   cool. thx

2. 
   Adam Brinson October 4th

   Tiny but really helpful tip. Thanks.

3. 
   Vizitke April 4th

   Very neat! Thanks!

4. 
   Mild May 13th

   Thanks!

5. 
   Satura jan February 12th

   This tutorial was really helpful to me and it was really great:)

6. 
   Satura jan February 12th

   This tutorial was simple and easy to follow!

7. 
   Prabir March 25th

   very helpful.Lot of thnks