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Creating random custom line patterns - Part 2

Following on from the previous post on creating custom line patterns, in this post I'm going to look at ways to produce a random pattern such as a pencil effect...

 

Creating random custom line patterns - Part 1

Today, I thought I'd take a look at how to go about creating random effect custom line patterns.  As usual this is prompted by a newsgroup poster, who wanted to give his work an unfinished or work in progress look.

Custom line patterns aren't as straight forward as they might appear so I'm going to split this post in two: part one will deal with how custom line patterns work in a general sense and part two will look at creating the random patterns themselves.