From the course: Learning the Adobe Pen Tool

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Adding some random wiggle

Adding some random wiggle

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Adding some random wiggle

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- In this movie I'm going to show you how to add a little bit of random wiggle to your path outlines. And this has less to do with drawing and more to do with making Illustrator draw for you. Which is something that we're going to see a lot in this course. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in, once again by pressing Control and Spacebar. That's Command and Spacebar on the Mac and then clicking. And I want to take in this red spot of paint right there. And I'll go ahead and Spacebar-drag it just a little bit. And notice that we have a considerable amount of wiggle associated with this path outline. Which might make you think that we've got tons and tons of smooth points surrounding the path. But if I were to click inside the path with my wide arrow, which is going to select the entire thing because I'm not clicking on the outline itself. Notice that it looks like an ellipse, and it's surrounded by just four anchor points. One at the top, one at the bottom, and two more on either side. So…

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