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Improving paths - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
Improving paths
- [Instructor] It would be really nice if we could draw perfect paths each and every time, but the reality is it doesn't matter how good you are or think you are, the chances are, you are going to have some paths that need a bit of work. Now I've made this collection of paths just here and we're going to look at improving those in a couple of ways. Now I've used a technique called over-drawing here, so I've drawn a straight line with the pencil tool, you can do that by holding down the Shift key to draw a straight line like so, and I've continued this line across because I actually want a sharp angle on either end of that. I hiccupped while I was actually going across this bit here, and knocked apart out of that path, so you know, that happens as well, even if I sort of did it on purpose. But you can see that that needs connecting together. So we've got a few things to do and a bit of smoothing out. What if we just want to…
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