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Converting a spline curve to Bézier

Converting a spline curve to Bézier - Illustrator Tutorial

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Converting a spline curve to Bézier

I've saved my changes as curly snout.ai found inside the 09_pen_tool folder. Now we're going to take a look at how to draw those fangs, very important. But before we do, there is something that's bugging me. If I zoom in on this snout, you can see that it has a little bit of kind of a clumsy corner associated with it, and this is by no means a nice fluid organic curve, which is what we normally associate with Bezier curves inside of Illustrator. And it's because I took that shortcut I used the round corners effect in order to fabricate a spline curve, which is an easier point of entry into curves in Illustrator, however, it doesn't give us much control. So let's say at this point you're thinking bafooie, this spline curves. Let's go ahead and do everything with Beziers, how in the world do I convert this path outline over? Well, you might think what you could do, I'll go ahead and zoom out so that you can see why this is the wrong decision. You might think that you could go ahead and…

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