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Finalizing the sketch for Illustrator

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Finalizing the sketch for Illustrator

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- So, I'm adding more curves than my rough sketch contained, in order to accomplish that. I think that looks good. And then, I'm going to give this more of a curve. You know what? That doesn't look good. So when I erase stuff, I either use the end of my pen here, and I always use a white eraser. It works better. If it's a bigger area, I'll use the bigger white eraser. This is a Mono eraser, and it goes with my Mono pencils. So they're kind of compatible that way, but in this case I'm just going to use the pen, and I'm going to go all the way back to the end, and I want this to be arched. Now this is a good example of drawing as you intend to build it, because I might use an elliptical shape in Illustrator to create this curve. So I'm kind of thinking that way as I'm drawing it out, and I want it to go thin and then get thick, and I'm not worrying too much about getting it exact, because when I build it in Illustrator, the tools are exact. So you don't have to draw, for example, a…

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