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Fusing path outlines together

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Fusing path outlines together

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- [Instructor] All right, now I'll show you a few tips and tricks for working with the blob brush, including how you can use it as a kind of shape builder in order to fuse multiple path outlines. All right, so I'll press Control + zero, or Command + zero on a Mac, to center my zoom, and then I'll turn on the template layer so that I can see my cat sketch, and I'll go ahead and paint this right ear first, his left of course. And notice that I have veered away from the line in the template just a little bit, but that should be okay, and that this is a pretty lumpy brushstroke, that was exceptionally bad right there around the tip, but as soon as I release, I end up getting this super smooth result. All right, now I'm going to zoom in on this detail, and because I'm working with a pretty thick brush, I'm going to make this detail larger like so, just so that I have a little more room to breathe. All right, now I'm going to deselect…

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