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Drawing a very complex path outline

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Drawing a very complex path outline

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to draw the most complicated path in the illustration which is this outline right here that runs along the profile of the face as well as the left shoulder. But tell you what we're going to cheat a little bit on the left shoulder, because it's going to be identical to the right shoulder, which I've already drawn in advance. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over to my illustration and progress and I'm going to turn off the hair layer and I'm going to turn on the outlines layer. And I'll go ahead and click on the outlines layers as well so that we can focus our attention on it. All right, now I'll go ahead and zoom in on the top of the head. And I will once again, select the Pen Tool naturally. Now this time around, we want to keep that blank stroke and we want it to be 8 pt thick but we do not want to fill. So just go ahead and click on that first swatch on the far left side of the…

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