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Drawing a tail

Drawing a tail - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing a tail

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- Drawing a tail to indicate whose mouth the words are coming from might be as simple as three clicks and a drag with the pen tool. But a perfectly drawn tail can not only point without being rude it can gently lead the reader from balloon to balloon and even from panel to panel. So, before we draw that first tail, first thing I'm going to do is go back to the closed arrow tool. Select both the type and the balloon, and just move them a little bit closer to the character whose speaking there. Zoom in. Then, we're going to get our pen tool, and we want to click in the center of the balloon, right there in the center. Drag about half-way to the speaker's mouth. Click. And then go back inside the balloon. Click, and drag, just to give it a little bit of a curve to it. And then, we can just hit Enter to end the balloon path. Then, we can select that. And let's go over to the layer tool. Move it down to the balloon layer. And if we select that and the balloon, go to the PathFinder palette.…

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