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Advanced Width tool tricks

Advanced Width tool tricks

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Advanced Width tool tricks

- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at a few advanced Width tool tricks. And it's all in the name of creating Groucho's ear. Now, we're going to start things off by drawing the ear using the Pen tool, which will give us a chance to review a few skills. And so, I'll turn the template layer back on here inside the Layers panel. And then I'll scroll over to the ear and I'll press the P key in order to switch to the Pen tool. All right, I'm going to drag at this point in order to create a smooth point, as you can see. And I've already established that I'll be drawing in a counterclockwise direction. Next, I'm going to drag right about here. And the reason is, the reason I'm not dragging at the top of this implied oval is because this is more of a rotated shape. So I'll drag right about here, and I'm not going to press the Shift key, because I don't want to constrain the angle of my control handles. But I am dragging, once again, in a counterclockwise direction. Now I'll drag…

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