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Introduction

This is what we'll create in this episode, a fish and clouds with curves as smooth as the pen tool, but only with clicks, using the curvature tool. Let's get started. Hello, welcome back to the complete Adobe Illustrator series from Cerdas Inovasi Digital. The curvature tool is a more intuitive alternative to the pen tool. We just need to click points along the shape, and Illustrator automatically calculates smooth curves. Press Shift ~ or select the curvature tool below the pen tool.

Step 1: Select the Curvature Tool

Click the first two points, then move the mouse, the preview line curves following the cursor before we click the third point.

Step 2: Fish body

Click points around the fish body, nose, back, top tail base, bottom tail base, belly, and then back to the nose. Each click creates a smooth curve, and the curve flows automatically.

Step 3: Corner anchor by double-clicking

The tail base should be sharp. Click twice on that point, the curve turns into a corner. Click twice again if you want it to return to smooth. This is how the curvature tool combines curves and corners.

Step 4: Tail and fins

Create a tail shaped like a curved triangle, with a corner curve at the ends. Add small fins on the back. Eyes are created with the ellipse tool. Draw clouds with the curvature tool, click up and down points along the top edge, and click twice on each curve to make the cloud bumps visible, then close the shape.

Step 6: Coloring

Give the fish an orange color, old orange for the tail and fins, and white clouds with a light blue background. Save and export the illustration.

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Done. We've drawn with the curvature tool just by clicking, created corner curves with double clicks, and completed the fish and cloud illustration. In the next episode, we'll draw freely with the pencil and smooth tools. Need a logo design, brand identity, vector illustration, infographic, or print and social media materials? Cerdas Inovasi Digital provides vector graphic design services and offers Illustrator courses from beginner to advanced. Want to master the entire series, 106 episodes from the interface to the final project? All episodes, complete with PDF step-by-step guides, practice files, and vector project files, are available to premium tutorial subscribers. Subscribe starting at Rp69.000 per month, save 28% with the 12-month package, or pay once Rp999.000 for lifetime access. Want just one class? Buy single classes with lifetime access. Subscribe now at the premium page cerdasinovasidigital.com Contact our WhatsApp or visit cerdasinovasidigital.com Thank you for watching, see you in the next episode. Thank you for watching, see you in the next episode.

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0:03Introduction

0:37Step 1: Select the Curvature Tool

0:48Step 2: Fish body

1:04Step 3: Corner anchor by double-clicking

1:19Step 4: Tail and fins

1:48Step 6: Coloring

2:50Done!

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0:03Introduction

0:37Step 1: Select the Curvature Tool

0:48Step 2: Fish body

1:04Step 3: Corner anchor by double-clicking

1:19Step 4: Tail and fins

1:48Step 6: Coloring

2:50Done!

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Introduction

Step 1: Select the Curvature Tool

Step 2: Fish body

Step 3: Corner anchor by double-clicking

Step 4: Tail and fins

Step 6: Coloring

Done!

Introduction

Step 1: Select the Curvature Tool

Step 2: Fish body

Step 3: Corner anchor by double-clicking

Step 4: Tail and fins

Step 6: Coloring

Done!