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Duplicating and scaling a complex object

Duplicating and scaling a complex object - Illustrator Tutorial

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Duplicating and scaling a complex object

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to duplicate this tower along with its ridges in order to create the tower on the left-hand side which is going to require a little bit of scaling as well. But first I want to draw some arrow slits and so I'm going to press Control Y or Command Y on a Mac in order to switch to the outline mode. And I'll go ahead and zoom in on this guy. And you might have noticed by now that I'm not trying to feverously duplicate reality, I'm taking some pretty broad strokes here. So I'm just going to grab that line segment tool and then I'll drag down like so while pressing the Shift key to constrain the angle of my drag to vertical and I'll go ahead and create this guy and you know what, I might create it from the center outward that might be more precise way to work. And so I'll position my cursor on the line and I'll press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac and drag this guy outward…

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