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Drawing with the Curvature tool

Drawing with the Curvature tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing with the Curvature tool

- [Narrator] All right, let's take a look at drawing with the curvature tool. Which is different than any of the tools we've seen so far. Now I'm going to start things off in the usual way, by going up to the file menu and choosing new from template. And then I'll locate my RGB with center guides file and open it up in order to create a brand new untitled document. Now, the curvature tool is located right here, in a single column toolbox between the traditional pen tool and the type tool. And it has a keyboard shortcut of Shift+Tilde And as you may recall, the tilde key is located in the top left corner of an American keyboard. And it makes a certain amount of sense, as a keyboard shortcut because after all, the tools icon features a kind of vertical tilde. And after you select the tool, and move it into the document window, you're seeing a horizontal version of that tilde. We're also seeing an asterisk, which tells us…

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