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Drawing perspective edges

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Drawing perspective edges

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- In this movie, we're going to draw the sides of these blocks of hot-metal lead, and they're essentially perspective rectangles. I'm not going to get into drawing these ledges. You can if you want of course, but frankly this project is complicated enough. So I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on this edge right here, which is the one that's second to left, and I'll once again grab my pen tool, and I will make sure, before I start, that my fill is set to none, so that I can see my template, and then I'll go ahead and click at this point right there, I'll click down here. I'll shift click over at this location, and I'll click back up here, and then finally I'll click on the first point. You want to make sure to do that. It's easy to forget that step. And make sure that you're seeing a circle next to your cursor. All right, now I'm going to zoom way in on this right edge, and I'll press the a key to switch to my wide-arrow tool, and I might select that anchor point right there and just…

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