How to Create a Coverstitch Pattern Brush in Adobe Illustrator CS5

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a coverstitch pattern brush using Adobe Illustrator CS5.  Instead of hand drawing coverstitch details on your designs, using pattern brushes will greatly reduce your workload and will help keep your artboard and files more tidy.  Use this to apply decorative coverstitching to your fashion sketches, or to specify technical details for factories.

Free Fashion Design Brushes for Adobe Illustrator: Zippers & Stitching

I’ve decided to start finally giving back to the community that I take so much advantage of, vecteezy.com!  If you aren’t familiar with the site, check it out for awesome and FREE vector downloads.  The site is built by community contributions, and I can’t tell you how many downloads I’ve made over the years.  It’s about time that I give back!  Grab yourself some zipper and stitching Adobe Illustrator brushes and do some sketchin’!

2 Ways How to Create Ribbing Using Illustrator: Dashed Lines & The Blend Tool

Learn how to quickly and easily add ribbing to your fashion sketches in Illustrator with either a dashed line or the blend tool.  These two methods have pros and cons, but both have extensive flexibility to edit and modify your ribbing to meet your needs.