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Drawing smoothly waving path outlines

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Drawing smoothly waving path outlines

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- [Instructor] All right. So all that's left is to add these smoothly waving cartoon blue highlights to the jet black hair. I've drawn a few of them in advance but we're going to try to draw all but one of the other ones using just two cusp points. All right. So I'll go ahead and lock down the color layer so I don't mess it up and I'll unlock the hair layer because after all that's the layer we'll be drawing on. Now, I neglected to say this shade of blue is a swatch. So what I'm going to do is press the V key to switch to my Black Arrow tool. And I'll just go ahead and click on one of the waves that I drew in advance in order to load it's fill color. And you can see if I Shift + click on that first swatch on the far left side of the control panel and assuming that I'm looking at my RGB values, that I've got a red value of 116, a green of 184 and a blue of 229, you could go ahead and save that off as a swatch if you want to.…

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