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Adding playful smile lines - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Designing Your Own Online Avatar
Adding playful smile lines
Alright, we've got ourselves a kind of wry smile at this point, but it's far too subtle, which is why in this movie we're going to dress things up by adding some smile lines as you see right here. So, I'll go ahead and switch to my document in progress, and I'll zoom in on it as well. And I'll press the A key to switch to the white arrow tool. I'll click on the lips path here, and I'm going to lift this control handle on the right-hand side. In order to add some additional curvature to the lip. And I'll go ahead and click on this path in the background, that's inside the clipping path and I'll click that anchor point right there. And I'll press the up arrow key a couple of times to life it upward, so that it's matching the path. Now i'll press the V key to switch to the black arrow tool, and I'll click on this path outline right there and I'll press Shift+Up arrow,a total of four times to raise it upward. And I'll click on this path outline. And press Shift+Left arrow to move it to…
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