If you havent read the Tentacle Brush 1 Tutorial, you can find it here. Its a much about brushes as it is about using the Transform effect. In Illustrator CS5, there has been advancements to the way brushes work that you can make even cooler brushes. Lets look at Tentacle Brush 2!
If you want the file to play around with, you can find it here.
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