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Hi there, in this tutorial...
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we're going to start with
some basic lines, like this...
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then do this to them, with the Width Tool.
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It's going to take our simple lines,
add a bit of dimensions to them...
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and a little bit of sexiness.
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All right, that is the Width Tool.
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Let's learn how to do that now
in Adobe Illustrator.
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To get started, let's go to 'File', 'Open'.
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In your 'Exercise Files',
there is a file called...
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'Width Tool', click 'Open'.
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I'm going to start with the
kind of like leaves at the top here.
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I want you to kind of complete--
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I want another leaf down the bottom here,
just show you how I drew it.
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So 'Pencil Tool',
I'm going to have a Fill of 'none'.
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Little stripy line, and I'm going to
have a Stroke of 'white'.
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And I'm going to have the Stroke Width
down to Hairline, which is '0.25'.
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I'm double clicking on my 'Pencil Tool'
to make sure the smoothing is way up.
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And I've turned off 'Keep Selected'.
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Click 'OK'.
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What I want to do now is just kind of
click and drag, and you can see there...
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because the curving's quite up high...
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it's making me look a whole
lot better than I am.
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So we've got a bottom leaf now.
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What I want to do is...
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do what we did at the Intro there,
and have those lovely lines.
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And the trick with it, is to get started,
with the Black Arrow.
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It's best to select all the lines,
and make sure it's really thin.
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So the Stroke Weight needs to be
at either 0.25, or less.
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That works. It needs to be quite thin
to get started.
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Next thing we're going to do is,
deselect in the background...
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and we're going to grab the 'Width Tool',
it's this guy there.
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Kind of a bow and arrow, click on it.
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And this magic tool,
if I zoom in a little bit...
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it means I can grab
any point on this line...
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and click, hold, and drag.
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If it doesn't, and it kind of
just goes nowhere...
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you're dragging the wrong way.
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Give it a wiggle.
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You can see here, beautiful!
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If you ever tried to do that before
with the Pen Tool...
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you tried to draw one line,
then the other side--
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I love the Width Tool.
So cool, huh!
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Select on this line,
I didn't even select on it...
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just grab the 'Width Tool'.
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Just start pulling them out
wherever you feel.
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I'm just going to work my way
around this one.
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It's amazing, you can transform
something quite simple.
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Got the smoothing on
to make it look a little nicer.
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Just kind of giving it some fullness.
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Now you can do more than
one point on a line.
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I'll show you how to do that
in this next part.
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I'm happy with it.
Yes, I'm happy enough with it.
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I imagined it better, but anyway.
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Down here, I've got a path
that I've drawn.
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What we're going to do,
is with the 'Width Tool'...
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we're going to end up with
multiple widths on it.
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So I'm going to start with one about here.
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You can see, it's kind of
working its way all the way around.
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From thickest here, all the way
to thin at the two ends.
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Now that's fine,
that's a lucky looking Fill...
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but what I'd like to do is...
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I want it to get kind of
skinnier along the top here.
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So watch this,
I can click out another line.
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I clicked the wrong way
Click, and drag up.
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I can make it thicker up here,
which is cool...
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but actually I just want
to make it thinner.
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So, just dragging this point
to make it quite thin.
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Then I got this kind of bolds there,
thins there.
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Then maybe across the middle here,
I'm going to drag out a nice thick one.
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You can start to get these kind of
cool ones in place of thick and thin.
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Maybe, down here I want it to be
nice and thin...
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but over here, I want it to get it
nice kind of tailed thing there.
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You know what I mean, right?
So I'm going to drag this nice and big...
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but potentially I want it to get
a lot smaller through here.
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Then get nice and big again
at the end here.
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Another thing you can do is
you can slide these.
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So say that they're at the wrong point.
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This guy here, you can click on him,
and just drag him around...
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and you can see, he kind of
wiggles his way all around...
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can't go past that guy...
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that I've already got there, but you can
drag these along, there's another one.
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I can see, it's kind of
moving and adjusting.
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You can also hold down the 'Shift' key...
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and drag one side, not the Shift key.
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Hold down the 'Option' key...
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and you can drag one side of it at a time.
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So it's Option on a Mac,
or Alt on a PC.
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And just grab any of these, either side,
doesn't really matter.
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You can just do one side rather than both.
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Now we've used the Pencil Tool quite a bit.
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Now to get our curves, we're going to
go back to the Curvature Tool...
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because, I guess this is a font...
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and I guess I want a little bit
more preciseness to it...
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rather than really hand drawn stuff.
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So, we're going to grab
the 'Curvature Tool'...
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and before I start drawing,
I'm just going to make sure...
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I've got no Fill, and I've got a Stroke...
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and in terms of the Stroke Width...
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I'm going to pick,
just 1 point for the moment.
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It can be hard to know,
with the Curvature Tool...
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how many points you need.
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It's a little bit of trial and error.
If I click once, and twice...
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I get a straight line, and it's
obviously not going to be enough.
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So if I click once, and maybe, a third...
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so just three of them.
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We can see, it's just got a bend
in the middle, it's not what I want.
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So what I do want is...
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there's two curves, there's one going
this way, and one going that way.
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I want one there, at the tippy top.
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Kind of one half way through,
at the Apex of this curve.
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It's a very slight one,
so I'm going to click once.
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Then one, kind of at the Apex of this one.
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Then, it's going to come out here.
Click once.
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Now I get kind of a nicer line.
Now it wants to continue on.
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I can grab the 'Black Arrow',
just click off in the background.
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If I grab my Width Tool now,
select on this, 'Width Tool'...
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it's going to work, to a degree.
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Well, it's going to work nicely,
but what you'll see here is...
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if I zoom in on the end here...
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you can see, I got kind of
this stubby end to it.
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It's because I didn't change
my Stroke Width before I started drawing.
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So I'm going to zoom out.
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I'm going to undo, actually.
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So before I use my Width Tool...
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I'm going to make sure
the Stroke is quite thin.
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You can't have 0, but you can have
like 0.05, something super thin.
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I'm using black as well, as my Fill.
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Now if I grab my Width Tool...
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I donât know how many points I need,
I might need two.
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I want one there,
to kind of get the top bit.
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Maybe one more for a fuller middle.
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It's not what I want,
I'm just going to do one in the middle.
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It's not quite right,
I'm going to drag it down.
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Remember, this drawing is
not meant to be perfect.
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Just kind of a hand drawn,
get it going one.
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So the other thing I might do is that...
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there's this, like little white width
in the middle there.
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It's a little bit hard when there's
something already there.
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So if I grab my Curvature Tool now...
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it wants to join up,
and wants to do things...
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so, 'Black Arrow', I'm just going
to click and grab the center...
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just kind of move it off...
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and we'll get back, we'll move
him back in a second.
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Now, Curvature Tool or Pencil Tool?
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I probably want
the Pencil Tool for this one.
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I'll grab the Pencil Tool, I just want
kind of a curve out of here.
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We'll see how that works.
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I'm going to make it
a Stroke color of 'white'.
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Now I'll move this back in.
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Because I drew it after this black line,
it should be on top.
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So I'm going to move him into position.
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Using my arrow keys, just to tap it down,
something like that.
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I'll rotate the handle a little bit.
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Now I'm messing about.
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You got the idea of what we're doing here.
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I'll turn the Stroke down to '0.05'...
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I'm going to grab my 'Width Tool'...
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and I'm going to drag this out.
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A little bit hard because
there's lots of things...
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fighting for the Width Tool's attention.
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So I'll make it something like that,
drag it down a little bit.
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How do I like it?
Yes, I like it enough.
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So what I want you to do is...
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your task is to go through and finish this.
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So I'd like you to go through
and do this part.
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One thing, when you're drawing
this part down the bottom here -
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let me have a quick little look
with the Curvature Tool.
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- is that if I draw one...
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draw one, draw one and come back here...
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it already wants to join up
to that existing one.
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So you just got to make sure...
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when you're coming to this end point,
is just to stay away...
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and you can fix that up afterwards
with the White Arrow.
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And you can drag it in afterwards,
kind of join up after it's been drawn...
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and start with that.
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All of these lines here,
the one little hint...
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I've practiced this already,
I've drawn this a few times.
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So let's go and change it back to black.
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One thing that catch people out
is this 'o'.
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I only learnt it from practices.
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Well, how many points does it need?
Looks like it needs about four.
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Seems that works out nicely.
Click once, click twice.
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Again, click again, you get
this kind of box type circle.
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It's kind of close to what we want.
That was a bit quick...
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but yes, with the Width Tool you can...
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move these and adjust them.
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See if you can give it a go,
give the 'v' a go...
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the 'e' a go, then do all these extra bits.
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Go through, color it,
I'd love to see how you get it.
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I've never actually gone through
and cleaned that fully myself.
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I love to see what other people do with it.
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I know it's not the best one,
but I'd love to see.
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Your interpretation can
totally adjust it...
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and make it as you want...
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but I'd like to see it as a project.
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So screen shot it, send it to me,
that would be awesome.
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All right, that is it for the Width Tool.
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It's pretty cool, huh!
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Next drawing though is
kind of sexy lines, super easy.
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I love it.
Thank you, Illustrator.
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All right, on to the next video.
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