From the course: Lettering Comic Books with Illustrator
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Joining tails and balloons with the layer method - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Lettering Comic Books with Illustrator
Joining tails and balloons with the layer method
- Next, we're going to take a look at the amazing top-secret comicraft layer method. If might take a little longer to set up, but ultimately this method makes the lettering job go faster. And makes balloons and tails easier to overlap and re-position later. I'll show you what I mean. Alright, this next technique I'm going to show you is top-secret so keep it quiet. It was actually invented by another comicraftsman. I can't take credit for it. Albert Deshane who's been lettering for comicraft for a long time, came up with this method of merging balloons, which you don't even have to use the path finder tool. So I'm going to show you how to do it. Let's take the balloons and tail that we've already created here and I'm gonna release which basically undoes that joining process. We're going to take all three of those balloons, select them, we're gonna copy, we're gonna paste in front. Which basically just pastes an identical copy right on top. We're gonna give that no stroke with a white…
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Arranging a line of dialogue4m 8s
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Typographic traditions2m 16s
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Drawing a basic balloon2m 40s
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Drawing a tail3m 1s
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Joining tails and balloons with the Pathfinder panel3m 37s
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Joining tails and balloons with the layer method2m
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Butting and masking balloons4m 46s
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Working in lowercase3m 59s
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