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Drawing a lot with very few points

Drawing a lot with very few points - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing a lot with very few points

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- [Instructor] All right, in this movie, we really have our work cut out for us. We're going to be drawing all of the facial features, including the eye, the eyebrow, the nose, the mouth, the jawline, and this deliciously complicated ear. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over to the document in progress here, and I'll zoom in, and I'll go up to the View menu, and choose Outline, or you can just press Control + Y, or Command + Y on the Mac, and that way we can see the tracing template in the background. Make sure your outlines layer is selected inside the layers panel. You'll also want to select your Pen tool, which you can get by pressing the P key, and then just go ahead and drag down in order to create a smooth point from about there, and we want to end at this point on the chin. Now, normally I would tell you this is a bad idea, because we're seeing an anchor point light up behind the cursor, but notice the…

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