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Using the Convert Point tool

Using the Convert Point tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the Convert Point tool

I've saved my progress as Final fangs.ai found inside the 09_pen_tool folder and we're now going to begin work on the tongue. Now this crocodile, we've already discussed how he is perhaps not the most accurately rendered crocodile on earth, but he is sort of a godlike creature, so he might have a variety of different attributes from different creatures don't you know. And one of those attributes is a serpent-like tongue and if I press Ctrl+Y or Command+Y on the Mac in order to switch to the Outline Mode, you can see not only does it have a kind of cleft in it. So it splits off in two different directions here but it also has stripes, it has a golden stripe right there and then a red stripe. So his mouth goes red on the deep interior up into the gums, and sort of a blue tip on the tongue. Pretty cool I think. Anyway, the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and complete the tongue, we're going to add a couple of arcs right here using the Pen tool of course, and…

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