: Is there a way to snap the brush to the guidelines in Adobe Illustrator? In Adobe Illustrator CS5, is there a way to snap the brush to the guidelines? This is the effect I'm aiming to create:

@Vandalay110

Command-U (mac) will turn on "Smart Guides". Not sure for PC, perhaps cntrl U? It will snap to different items you configure (guidelines being an option) in the same menu item where you turn guides on and off.



You can configure the objects to snap to in the Preferences -> Smart Guides tab.



If you want to snap with the brush, you can simply draw the lines with the pen tool, and then select those lines and assign a brush stoke to them.

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@Nimeshi706

That image is doing nothing but confusing me. Not sure how it relates to anything, however.....

Draw your path with the Pen Tool. It will snap to guides.

When the path is drawn, select it and click the brush you want to use. The brush will be applied to the path.

As for standard brushes, no. They won't snap to guides. The freeform drawing tools (Brush, Pencil, Blob Brush) are not designed to snap to anything to keep them "freeform". You can always expand brush strokes so they become shapes, and then snap those shapes to a guide. Of course, you can't easily alter the "flow" of shapes the way you can the spine of a brush stroke.

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