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Drawing smooth points

Drawing smooth points - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing smooth points

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- [Presenter] In this movie, I'll show you how to draw smooth points with the pen tool. Now, the short story is instead of clicking as you do to create corner points you drag instead. But there's a lot more going on as I'm about to demonstrate. So I'll go ahead and turn off the smooth points layer and then I'll drop down to the page icon at the bottom of the layers panel and I'll alter or option click on it to force the display of the layer options dialog box. I'll call this guy More Smooth and I'll change it's color to something that's going to show up well against the white background such as dark green and then I'll click Ok. All right, now I'll go ahead and select the pen tool which of course you can get by pressing the P key. And I'm going to start my drag just a little bit over from the guideline. Now notice that my cursor has a little asterisk next to it which tells us that we're going to begin a new path. And so as soon…

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