Feel free to use any of the other Brush Libraries, or indeed create your own, to suit your taste. With the Selection tool, select all of the stem and branch elements, and click on the second brush graphic in the Basic RGB panel to apply that style. Save your document as Swirls.ai at this point, then go to Window>Brush Libraries>Default Brushes, and choose Basic RGB.
(Note: To draw a swirl in the opposite direction, click once on the artboard with the Spiral tool and select the other Style in the Spiral dialog.) In this case, I’ve created a total of four extra branches.
Make sure the branches start at the stem as accurately as possible. Then click the Create New Layer icon, rename the new layer “Branch 1,” and use the Spiral tool to draw another swirl coming out from the stem, as shown above.Ĭontinue the same steps (new layer, draw new branch swirl, check fill is None) for as many branches you would like to have coming from the main stem. In the Layers panel, double-click Layer 1, rename it “Stem,” and click OK. With the path selected, go to either the Toolbox or Color panel, click the Fill icon then the None icon to remove the default white fill, leaving only the black 1-point stroke (going to View>Show Transparency Grid can help confirm this is done). With the Direct Selection tool, select the right end point of the Pen tool path and the left end point of the swirl path and go to Object>Path>Join to create a single path. Then switch to the Spiral tool to draw the swirl on the right. Click OK, then using the Pen tool, create the main stem for the left side of your design. Create a new document called “Swirls” at 720×540 pixels, and set the Color Mode to RGB. Let’s start out in Adobe Illustrator CS3, by far the best tool for creating such design elements-and as you’ll see, hugely important in providing the actual animation paths for us also (yes, you read that right!). But creating and animating such elements is really not as difficult and time-consuming as it would seem, even if the shapes are detailed and intricate. Animated swirls are all the rage in the motion graphics world, and there are some pretty cool things that can be done with them.
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