: Illustrator: create four double sided arrows to form a circle I'm a little bit newbie to Illustrator, so sorry if my question is pretty banal. Following art work is what I'd like to design:

@Annie732

Make your basic shape with arrow headed
Go to the brush tab or Press F5
click on new brush


Select Pattern Brush and press ok
Name the brush as you wish
In the spacing 25 and Fit options Add space to fit and press ok
Make a circle remove the color and just apply the stroke.

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@BetL875

Draw your circle and ensure it's selected.
Go to Object > Path > Add Anchor Points, and repeat it another 2-4 times (this part, you might need to judge with your own eyes; I did it a total of four times in my example). I get this:





With the white arrow tool, click the top anchor point and delete it.





Repeat step 3 with the right, bottom, and left anchor points, leaving this:




You can now select each path to add the correct stroke and arrowheads as desired.

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@Sarah814

Your original thinking works. Here it is tried.

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@Kimberly620

I'm pretty sure there's plenty of other ways to do it but I would take my arrows and turn them into an art brush and then, I'll make a circle and make sure it has no fill and has an outline and use that art brush I just made that way the arrows will follow the outline of the circle.

Here are screenshots on how I did it:

Basically, during the first step, I made 4 arrows all in all.











Make sure you make 4 arrows in the beginning. I initially started with 2 and it didn't quite work.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if it sounds confusing. I will be glad to help you out some more.

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