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Breaking a symbol link and envelope fidelity

Breaking a symbol link and envelope fidelity - Illustrator Tutorial

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Breaking a symbol link and envelope fidelity

I have saved my progress as Tiki circle.ai. In this exercise we are going to set about editing the central tiki mask. And then in a later exercise we will update all the other instances to match. Now let's say what I want to do with this guy is I want to make a little more evil. Currently he's got this sort of slack-jawed look and he is kind of has zombie eyes. He's not the least bit scary in my opinion. And I think it'd be more interesting if he was scary. So I'm going to give him kind of an evil grin ultimately. And one way to modify the symbol would be to double-click on this Instance in order to enter this symbol isolation mode. And I can see the tiki in the context of the other tiki's, which is great. However the big problem is that all of my local adjustments, the fact that he is scaled to 200%, the fact that he was moved to a different location inside the illustration and of course, his drop shadow, they are all lost to me, I can't see them. And I don't want to work that way. I…

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