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- [Instructor] In this movie,

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we're going to add a few
line art embellishments,

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including this reflection
line in the metal portion

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of the brush, these bristle lines,

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and then finally this
little dollop of paint.

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All right, I'll go ahead and
switch over to my document

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in progress, and I'll
ctrl+spacebar or cmd+spacebar click

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in order to zoom in.

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And we're going to start
with the reflection line here

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by switching to the curvature
tool, which once again,

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you can get by pressing shift+~.

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And then, let's say I want
to begin my line right here

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at this point.

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If I click right here,

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then I'm going to end up
selecting this path outline,

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which is not what I want to do.

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So you always have to bear in mind

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that the curvature tool
is part drawing tool

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and part selection tool.

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All right, so I'll go ahead
and press ctrl+shift+a

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or cmd+shift+a in the Mac
to deselect that artwork,

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and I'll start a little
higher than that path outline

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at this point right about there,

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and then I'll click a little farther down,

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and I'll click right here,

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and then I'm just going
to go back and forth.

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And it's kind of hard
to see what I'm doing,

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and that's because my line
wave is too darn thick.

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So I'm going to go up
to the stroke option,

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click the down pointing arrowhead,

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and choose two point from the pop up menu.

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So you can change the fill
and stroke any way you want

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as you're working along here.

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And so now I'll go ahead
and click right about here,

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and then I want to end things
right at this location,

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but again, if I do that,

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I'm going to end up selecting
the other shape again,

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which is not what I want.

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So I'll go ahead and
click on this guy in order

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to light up that end point,

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and I'll click right about here instead.

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All right, now I want to move things

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into the proper locations,
but if I start clicking,

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I'm going to add a point.

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So I'll press the escape
key in order to get rid

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of that rubber band, and I'll
go ahead and drag this guy

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to about this location here, let's say,

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and notice that lit him up,
which is not what I want,

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so I'll press the escape key in order

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to get rid of the rubber band again.

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I should've known better than that.

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And now look, notice every
single time I move a point,

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I get into trouble, so
I'll press the escape key.

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Apparently, I'm going to
have to do that a lot.

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And now I'll do it again,

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and I'll drag this guy up a little bit,

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and I'll move to the other end point,

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but I don't want to click on it
until I press the escape key.

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And now I'll drag it down to,
let's say, right about there,

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at which point it seems

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to me we have a pretty
good reflection line.

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Press the escape key again
in order to experiment

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with just moving this point

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to a slightly different location,

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maybe closer to the first point, like so.

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All right, that takes care
of the reflection line.

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So I'm just going to press the v key,

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even though I've got a rubber band going,

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I can press the v key to
switch to the black arrow tool,

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and get away from that pesky rubber band,

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and then I'll click on this
path outline right here in order

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to select it, and I'll give
it a very light gray fill,

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which begins r equals 230.

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All right, I'll go ahead and scroll up.

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Now we want to add the bristle lines,

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and we're going to do that using a feature

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I haven't shown you yet.

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And so go ahead and
press the a key in order

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to switch to the white
arrow tool, and then click

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on the side of this brush like so,

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and you should see a
point right about there,

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and another point here.

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So I want you to click on this one

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and shift click on this guy.

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And then shift click on this point,

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and shift click on this one.

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So we're selecting the pair
of points on either side

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of the brush.

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And now I want you to
go up to the edit menu

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and choose a copy command
or you can press ctrl+c,

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and then return to the edit
menu and choose paste in front,

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or you can press ctrl+f
or cmd+f on the Mac.

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All right, now we're going to blend

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between these two path
outlines by going up

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to the object menu, choosing
blend, and then choosing make.

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And that's going to create
a single intermediate line

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between the two.

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Now I don't want it to be this thick,

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so notice that my stroke
panel is up over here

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on the right hand side of the
screen which gives me access

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to my line weight, because
I'm not seeing it up here

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in the control panel anymore.

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So I'm going to change that weight
value to two points like so.

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Now also notice these weird
little wedges down here

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near the bottom of the brush.

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I'm going to go ahead and zoom in

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so we can see them a little better.

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That's caused by the fact

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that our arced lines are still filled,

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and we can fix that up
here in the swatches panel.

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Make sure your fill is
active, and then click on none

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or you can just press the / key.

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All right, now we need

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to change this one interval
line right here to four lines,

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and you do that by returning
to the object menu,

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dropping back down to blend,
and choosing blend options.

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And then go ahead and change
spacing to specified steps

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so that we can control the number of steps

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that we're seeing.

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Turn on the preview checkbox,

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and then click inside that
value that currently says one

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for that one step right there,

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and then press the up arrow key

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until you get an effect you like.

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For me, I went with four steps like so,

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at which point you can
go ahead and click okay.

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And that, friends, is a
very brief introduction

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to a feature called
blending in Illustrator,

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and we'll be seeing more of
it in the advanced course.

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All right, now I'm going
to go ahead and switch back

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to my curvature tool,

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and I'm going to alter
opt+click right there

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to create a corner point.

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And then I'll click let's say right

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about there and here as well,

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and what I'm trying to do
is draw some goopy paint

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at the end of the brush,

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and so I'm just going to create a total

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of three loops right
here, and then I'll click

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at this location, up here,
and then finally I'll click

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at the very first corner point
in order to close that path.

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And now I'll go ahead
and change the fill color

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for that paint to the
pink that begins R237

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in order to produce this effect here,

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and then I'll press the v key to switch

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to the black arrow tool,

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and I'll go ahead and click
off the shape to deselect it.

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And now I'll press ctrl+0
or cmd+0 on a Mac in order

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to zoom out.

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And that is at least one way

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to add a few line art
embellishments using a combination

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of the curvature tool along

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with the make blend command
here inside Illustrator.