From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Tracing a smooth path outline - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Tracing a smooth path outline
I have saved my progress such as it is as Crocodile ball.ai found inside the 09_pen_tool folder, so called by the way because if we scroll over here, it looks like the crocodile has this big wacky ball in his mouth. Let's get rid of it by pressing the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac. I'm also going to go ahead and turn the Guides back on in case we need them later, by pressing Control+Semi-colon or Command+Semi-colon on the Mac, but I am going to turn the guides layer off here inside the LAYERS panel and I am going to turn the ancient image layer back on, so that we can see that tracing template below. I also need to make it change to the big green blobby shape here. Let's go ahead and Twirl Open the drawing layer. This green head needs to have a thicker stroke. So I am going to meatball green head to select it, my Stroke panel is available to me. I'm going to change the line weight to 3 points and then press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac to make that stroke a…
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Connecting the dots1m
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Drawing a straight-sided path6m 53s
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Moving and deleting points7m 46s
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Editing a path as you go7m 5s
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Switching arrow tools on the fly4m 27s
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Dragging, nudging, and marqueeing4m 28s
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Faking a spline curve5m 54s
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Adding corners to a spline7m 15s
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Introducing Bézier curves8m 8s
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Drawing perfect smooth points9m 24s
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How control handles work10m 17s
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Tracing a smooth path outline9m 52s
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Connecting smooth and cusp points5m 22s
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Combining different varieties of points9m 14s
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Finessing points and segments5m 32s
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Aligning open paths5m 38s
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Splitting and joining paths8m 51s
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Converting a spline curve to Bézier10m 9s
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Cusp points and miter limits6m 45s
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Using the Convert Point tool4m 42s
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Drawing one path inside another4m 20s
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Stacking clipped paths4m 28s
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Copying and repurposing segments9m 57s
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Grabbing and transforming a whole layer7m 14s
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