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Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop

Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop
There are lots of ways to create swirls in Illustrator, you can even download vectors from sites such as bittbox and dezignus, and if you are using Photoshop you can download brushes with those sorts of symbols. However in this tutorial I will show 4 ways to create swirls, and by mixing them you will learn some very powerful techniques that will allow you to easily make tons of different styles of swirls and crazy sperm vectors. 1st Way - Arc, Circle, and Path tool Select the Arc Tool and create an arc. You can change the arc's properties by holding the mouse button and pressing the UP and DOWN keys for the angle of the arc, SPACE to move it, and ALT to change the center point. Now create an ellipse using the Ellipse Tool (L). After you create the arc go to Object>Path>Outline Stroke. 2nd Way - Blend Tool(W) Create 2 circles, one will be the start and the other the end points of our swirl. The spine is the path along which the steps in a blended object are aligned. 3rd Way - Spiral Tool

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