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Extending and connecting paths

Extending and connecting paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Extending and connecting paths

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to extend and connect open path outlines regardless of what tool was used to draw them in the first place using the pencil tool. And so, I'll start by selecting the pencil tool, either from the free-flowing toolbar or from the standard vertical toolbox and then I'll press the D key which establishes my default fill and stroke settings. And it gives me a one point line weight as well. I'm going to take that line weight up just a little bit to two points and I'll click on the word stroke here and turn on both round cap and round joint. All right, now I'll press the escape key to hide that panel. Now I'll begin drawing from frills around the outside of this heart and some of them are turning out to be a little bit lumpy it looks like but I'm hoping that they smooth out by the time I'm done. And sure enough I do have quite the lump there so I'm going to try to redraw this section just a…

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