In this “Three Minutes Max” video, Monika Gause shows how to overcome some limitations and oddities of custom brushes in Illustrator. She explains how to manipulate regions of a brush, for instance to have portions of the brush not follow the curve of the underlying stroke. Monika then demos how using a pattern brush can fix the odd results when a brush’s path overlaps.
Three Minutes Max comes from a fun—yet very competitive—session at our annual CreativePro Week conference. Speakers have three minutes to wow the audience with the tip and win a prize for a lucky conference attendee.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on August 16, 2023
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