Ai CS6 kung fu help.
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- MrAbominable
Hello,
I'd like to take the silhouette of an object and draw large calligraphic loops within that area. In Ps if i made a selection... that selection would act as a bounding box and would constrain the line. In Ai, "Masking" breaks the line outside the area; and if i manually draw up to the line it will lose its fluidity.
Is there a simple way of doing this in Ai that i'm overlooking (not hard to imagine as i'm no Ai rockstar)? Thanks in advance for any help.
- doesnotexist0
envelope distortion
it's in the object menu i believe
- MrAbominable0
thanks so much, doesnotexist. off to give it a shot. will report back!
- MrAbominable0
i think that's going to work well!
thank you so much. Google just laughed at me over and over again with the question. thanks QBN and Big Thanks to doesnotexist!!!
- animatedgif0
The scribble filter can also do something similar
- good to know for the future. but in theory i want a more anticipated line.MrAbominable
- MrAbominable0
Would there, is there, a way to have turned the silhouette into an Art Board and somehow confine the stroke that way too?
- duckseason0
Create a shape, select it, change drawing mode to "Draw Inside" (shift+d). Essentially makes a clipping mask for you.
- Or maybe I'm not 100% understanding what you want to do... Need more coffee.duckseason
- i'm looking to have the line held within the "mask" rather than cut off beyond the mask. Constrained rather than clipped.
MrAbominable - Constrained rather than clipped.MrAbominable
- Yeah, realized that after posting =/duckseason
- well, you showed me a new way to make a clipping mask. so there's that. xoMrAbominable
- MrAbominable0
fwiw, i'd essentially love to be able to pull off something like...
within a known outline.
