Create a Cool Floral Monogram using Floral Brushes

Step 1

Set up your work area, open up the brushes pallette.

Here is my choice:

Step 2

Draw a bird following step by step using pencil tool

Step 3

Now i will be working on creating a corner element of FRAME i will be creating using brushes from the brush set.

Step 4

Using this corner design and basic tools of mirror, rotate and copy i created a frame but before that it is quite important to EXPAND the strokes. As once you rotate the corner element brushes will not reflect evenly unless otherwise expanded.

Step 5

In order to create a copy of the designed element double click the mirror icon which will open up the options box for you, this will be done while selecting the whole of the element of design.Hit copy! it is important that you must group the element before making a copy. Now shift the copy to the desired place which pressing shift which will move it in a straight line, aligned to the first corner.

Step 6

Repeat again the reflect tool by selecting BOTH the design element and this time reflect Horizontal hit copy. Hey you got a complete floral frame!

step 7

Now i added the small bird that i created in step 2 (expand this as well ) Since i want to place a stroked coloured background to the current designed element i need to clean up the stray points and paths in the illustration. When you use brushes and they are expanded you no longer need the paths so just go to Object>path> cleanup.

group the whole design. Create a copy. Paste the copy at the back. Give it a fill and a stroke. increase the stroke width to get an outline larger than the frame we are working on.

Step 8

Place some interesting background behind it! And we are done!