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Sculpting with variable-width strokes

Sculpting with variable-width strokes - Illustrator Tutorial

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Sculpting with variable-width strokes

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to create these sculpted circles at each one of the six points of the star. And this is largely a function of assigning multiple variable width strokes. And, so, I'll go ahead and switch over to my star in progress. I'm going to turn off the main star and inset layers, for a moment, and then click on the Shapes Layer to make it active. And, I want to go ahead and select this circle right there and then I'll press the alt key or the option key on the Mac and drag that colored square up to the inset layer in order to make a copy of it and then I'll turn off the Shapes Layer and turn the other two layers back on. All right, now I'm going to zoom in on this circle quite a bit here. Now, the thing about a circle is that it begins, here, on its right-hand point. And that means if we're going to assign a variable with stroke, we've got to have a width point right there which is not…

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