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The Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat tools

The Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat tools - Illustrator Tutorial

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The Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat tools

In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to the next three Liquify tools which are Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat. I have gone ahead and saved my progress as Repeatedly warped horse.ai, and as you may recall, my horse is selected, but I've hit the selection outlines. So it's ready for more warping anytime I like. But before I start, I want to darken up my horse. I want it to look pitch black against this blue background. So I will go over to the color panel, make sure that my fill is selected, and then go to the flyout menu and switch to CMYK. And then I will dial in 50% for the Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow values, and I'll leave the black value set to 100%, and now we've got a rich, black horse, which is just the way it ought to be. I am going to switch to the Twirl tool, and I'll go ahead and Shift+Alt+Drag like so--Shift+Option+Drag on the Mac-- to create a big, huge brush, and I'll click on the horse's face just ever so briefly. And you can see I end up twirling the face in a…

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