Creating a Wooden pattern in Adobe illustrator

By means of this tutorial you will learn to create a wooden pattern in illustrator CS3.
Open a new document. Choose the Rectangle tool and make some black rectangles.

 

 

Select all the rectangles and navigate to Object >Transform >Transform Each.

 

 

Use the following settings.

 

 

Now all the stripes will look dissimilar.

 

Choose the Twirl tool and click on different areas of the stripes to give them a twirl.

 

Now you need to use the Pucker tool at various sections to bring contrast to the stripes.

 

 

Now give the stripes a dark brown colour.

After that, draw a light brown rectangle bigger in size.