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Establishing variety with stroke attributes - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Designing Your Own Online Avatar
Establishing variety with stroke attributes
In this movie, we're going to adjust the line weight, as well as the stroke colors, in order to establish some variety in our path outlines. I'm going to start off by selecting both of the jaw shapes. So, I'll click on one and Shift-click on the other, using my black arrow tool. And, I'll go ahead and Shift-click on these two path outlines, as well. Along the sides of my mouth. I'll Shift-click on all three of the nose shapes like so. Not the nostrils, by the way. Leave them alone. And also Shift-click on these two lines under the eyes as well as the outlines of the ears. Not the shapes inside the ears, just the outlines of the ears And again, this is all subjective stuff. So if you decide I'm wrong, then try something different. And now I'm going to change the line weight up here in the control panel to two points, and I'll press the Enter key, or the Return key on the Mac, in order to apply that change. And then I'll click off the path outlines to deselect them. I'm going to marquee…
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