Spray Paint Effect in Illustrator

Recently I accidentally started to make a spray paint effect over one of my layers in illustrator and I was wondering if anyone knew how to do it so I can use it again?

Shift S - switch to symbol sprayer
Choose a symbol (Symbol palette flyout >> open library >> grime vector pack (if you have this one depends on your version)
Spray some symbols
Switch to other symbol tools to variate the angle/size/color/Tint/etc

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