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Drawing cusp points

Drawing cusp points - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing cusp points

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to create a third variety of anchor point, which is known generally as a cusp and this is a variety of corner point that occurs at the intersection of two curving segments or a curved segment and a straight one. And so I'll go ahead and turn off my most recently right there and I'll alter option click on the page icon to force the display of the layer options dialog box and I'll just go ahead and call this guy cusp points this time around and I will change the color to orange and then click okay. Now I'm going to start things off by demonstrating what a cusp looks like and so I'll go ahead and grab the ellipse tool right here and then I'll draw to create, let's say a circle. I'll just go ahead and press the shift key as I create this shape and it looks like I've restored my default fill and stroke settings. And so I'm going to change the fill to none over here in the far…

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