Learn how to create a lightning text effect in Illustrator.
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To start off, you will learn how to create an art brush, the background, and the main compound path. Moving on, you will learn how to make a lightning bolt in Illustrator and how to use it to decorate your electric text effect.

00:00 - Intro
00:59 - Set up a new document
02:09 - Create an art brush
03:26 - Create the background
04:06 - Create the text compound path
07:51 - Create the lightning text effect
13:43 - Save the lightning graphic style
14:00 - Create the lightning bolts
15:52 - Outro

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