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Drawing a custom letterform

Drawing a custom letterform - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing a custom letterform

- [Presenter] In this movie, I'll show you how to draw a custom letter form using the curvature tool. The reason being that this is one of the best uses for the tool. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over to my documents so far. And I'll zoom in on this central area right here. And then I'll go ahead and grab my curvature tool which has a keyboard shortcut of Shift + ~. And I'll go ahead and begin things right here, I guess. And so I'm just going to draw the outside edge of the C for starters here and notice that the tool does a great job of creating very smooth path outlines. Now I'm not really going to want that big loop over there but I'll take care of that in a second after I get done drawing a few more things. Now here, I'm going to set down a corner point by Alt clicking that would be an Option click on the Mac and then I'll set another one down by Alt or Option clicking again and I will close this shape by Alt or…

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