Apply organic textures to amp up flat illustrations

Explore how to add texture in a variety of ways to your artwork with Illustrator Scatter brushes.

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What you learned

Make artwork for a brush

Discover different kinds of vector artwork you can use to make your own scatter brush, and dive into making a random dot pattern to start with.

Create and refine a Scatter brush

With artwork ready, you’ll create and edit the properties for a scatter brush. Once created, you’ll apply the scatter brush to a path and use Draw Inside mode to add it to an existing shape.

Refine the artwork appearance

To get the texture just right, explore ways to change the appearance of the artwork scattered along the path, including color, weight, opacity, and blend modes!