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Creating a jagged burst balloon

Creating a jagged burst balloon - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a jagged burst balloon

- Now that you have a big, beautiful emphasis word in there, that plain old white balloon with the black stroke just isn't going to cut it, is it? The jagged burst balloon is what most people think of when they think comic book balloon, and I'll show you how to make one that pops off the page. So let's bring the balloons layers back into focus here. And I'm going lock the the lettering layer so we can grab the balloons and resize them around. I'll take the tail and just rotate it over here. Now I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, you know what, that balloon's a little too dull for this awesome sound effect word we've created here. So what I'm going to do is, so I'm going to turn the top layer of the balloon into a guide by selecting it and hitting command five. So we've got an oval guide here and we're going to create a jagged burst balloon . This is probably what you think of when you think comic book burst balloon, this is the one that you're thinking of and here's the way to make…

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