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by CharlesW
1019 days ago
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> But I've never met an artist or graphic designer who didn't express some deep frustration at Bezier controls and how hard they are to work with. That surprises me, because Illustrator (especially earlier versions) is all about Bezier curves, and in my experience it doesn't take long before you start to "think" like the Pen tool. I don't recall working with an artist who couldn't intuit how they worked after creating with them for a few weeks. |
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That doesn't mean they don't stop being frustrating.
I will commonly wish there was a method to change a curve in a single drag in some particular situation, rather than 20 drags of fiddling with beziers, trying to figure out if adding another control point is necessary or redundant.
Just because you figure out the intuition behind them doesn't turn them into an efficient way of achieving results. Because the intuition of beziers translates poorly to our innate human/artistic intuitions of curves.