From the course: Adobe Pen Tool: Mastery
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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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Introducing a tracing template5m 49s
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Drawing a flexible compound shape8m 38s
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Signposts and stacking order10m 7s
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Advanced transformations6m 9s
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Dynamic round corners6m 55s
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Variable-width strokes7m 43s
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Advanced Width tool tricks11m 3s
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When to use the Pencil tool10m 4s
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Combining drawing tools6m 15s
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Using variable-width profiles9m 2s
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Converting strokes to closed paths10m 38s
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Shape building and angled objects13m 2s
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Gradients and clipping paths15m 40s
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Working with the Gradient tool7m 2s
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Experimenting with dynamic effects15m 50s
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The finishing touches14m 2s
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