How to Create a Barbed Wire Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed barbed-wire pattern brush and use it to create a nice text effect in Adobe Illustrator. You will learn how to set up a simple grid and how to create every piece of your barbed wire. You will learn how to create pixel-perfect shapes, how to add subtle shading and highlights using basic blending and vector shape building techniques, how to work with blends and strokes, and how to save a simple graphic style.