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Experimenting freely without penalty

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From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Experimenting freely without penalty

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- [Voiceover] In this movie we'll begin the creation of this wild background. That's all based on a single strait line. And we'll create this effect the way you really go about doing so through experimentation. And one of the great things about graphic styles is that they allow you to experiment without penalty. All right, I'll go ahead and switch over to this document right here and I'll zoom out so that I can see the entire art board with its bleed and I'll go ahead and click on that rectangle and press the Backspace key, or the Delete key on Mac, to get rid of it. Next I'll go up to the view menu and I'll turn on my smart guides, which are currently turned off, you may recall that you can turn them on and off by pressing Control + U or Command + U on the Mac. And now I'll grab my line segment tool which I can select from the line tool fly-out menu and I'll drag from one corner to the other specifically, from the top left corner to the bottom right corner and now, I'll go ahead and…

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