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Creating arrowheads - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
Creating arrowheads
- [Instructor] Believe it or not, it's only in the last few years, maybe like the last five or six years or so that we've had arrowheads inside of the stroke panel in Illustrator. They actually used to be an effect, which was a real bind when you are actually using arrowheads. Now it's pretty easy, and all we really need to know, and not even a hundred percent, that is the direction in which you draw your stroke. So let's pretend that this dotted line here represents a journey at which there is a start and the end, and we might also have text labels to do that, but we won't worry about those for the moment. What we'll do is we'll put some arrowheads on there. So we're going to go ahead and tap backslash to get the line tool. Now start drawing out here in the ocean as it were, and then just finish just before the first red dot, just here. So there is your stroke ready to go, and what we can do is we can come down here…
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