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Create sketches and mosaics

Learn to create sketches and mosaics to stylize your artwork in Illustrator.

Do you want to give your artwork and images an exciting and artistic touch? You can create sketches and mosaics in Illustrator to make them even more attractive.

Create a sketch using the Scribble effect

Use the scribble effect to beautify your artwork and create sketches. Follow the steps to get the desired effect:

  1. Do one of the following:

    • Select the object or group (or target a layer in the Layers panel).

    • To apply the effect to a specific object attribute, such as a stroke or fill, select the object, and then select the attribute in the Appearance panel.

    • To apply the effect to a graphic style, select a graphic style in the Graphic Styles panel.

  2. Choose Effect > Stylize > Scribble.

  3. Do one of the following:

    • To use a preset scribble effect, choose one from the Settings menu.

    • To create a custom scribble effect, begin with any preset, and then adjust the Scribble Options.

  4. Click OK.

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Scribble Options

Angle

Controls the direction of the scribble lines.

Path Overlap

Controls the amount the scribble lines stay within or extend beyond the path boundaries. 

Variation (for Path Overlap)

Controls the lengths of the difference in scribble line lengths relative to each other.

Stroke Width

Controls the width of the scribble lines.

Curviness

Controls the amount the scribble lines curve before they reverse direction.

Variation (for Curviness)

Controls how different the scribble line curves are relative to each other.

Spacing

Controls the amount of space between scribble line folds.

Variation (for Spacing)

Controls how different the amount of space is between scribble line folds.

Create a mosaic

Transform any bitmap image into a beautiful mosaic to give an artistic touch to it. The image must be embedded, not linked. You can also rasterize a vector object to use it as the basis for the mosaic. Follow the steps to get the desired effect:

  1. Select the image.

  2. Choose Object > Create Object Mosaic.

  3. To customize the dimensions of the mosaic, enter new values and select the desired options given in the Create Object Mosaic dialog.

  4. Click OK.

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Create Object Mosaic

Constrain Ratio

Locks the width or height dimensions to the dimensions of the original bitmap image.

Result

Specifies whether the mosaic tiles are color or grayscale.

Resize Using Percentages

Changes the size of the image by percentages of width and height.

Delete Raster

Deletes the original bitmap image.

Use Ratio

Makes the tiles square, using the number of tiles specified in Number Of Tiles.


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