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Creating cusp points

Creating cusp points - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating cusp points

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- In this movie, I'll show you how to create cusp points with the Pen Tool, which are corners between two curving segments, or a curving segment and a straight one. Alright, I'm going to start off by turning off this more smooth layer, and then I'll alt click, or option click on the little page icon, at the bottom of the Layers panel. I'll name this layer cusp points, and I'll change its color to orange. And then I'll click OK. Alright, now before I show you how to draw a cusp point, which by the way, short story, you alt drag, or option drag with the Pen Tool. I want to show you what it looks like. So I'll go ahead and select the Ellipse Tool, and I'm going to shift drag, in order to create a circle like so. And now, I'll press the v key to switch back to the black Arrow Tool, and I'll go ahead and drag this guy over to the right, while pressing the shift and alt keys. Those are the shift and option keys on a Mac. The shift key is constraining the angle of my drag, the alt or option…

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