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Creating arrowheads

Creating arrowheads - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating arrowheads

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- [Tony] Sometimes we want to indicate the direction of something with a line or from one place to another, and that's where arrowheads come in to the equation. What I'm going to do is just activate the Stroke Pen, and I'll do it in the Properties panel this time, because I want to change the stroke above to point towards this bee. The Arrowheads section is in the bottom part of the Stroke dialog, and it's for the start of a line and the end of a line. That's what these two boxes mean. So I'll go to the end of the line because I drew it top to bottom here, and then choose an arrowhead. So I think I'll have this one here, Arrow 11, and I get an arrowhead like so. Now, to my own mind, that's a little bit big, and some of them actually, let's choose another one. Okay, some of them (chuckles) are actually really huge, like that one there for example, that's quite big. But it doesn't mean you can't use it because you can…

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