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How to create a curved tail in a word ballon.


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Okay I am doing a lettering gig and the person needs to have a tail curved. I created a separate tail using the pen tool, But I am not seeing a way to curve the tail. this is my balloon and I need to transform like the second image. Or is there a way with the call-out ellipse tool to curve the tail. Thanks for any help.

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25 minutes ago, Sporkmanstudios said:

Or is there a way with the call-out ellipse tool to curve the tail.

You can use that shape, then convert it to curves and deform (or add additional nodes to deform) it afterwards with the Node tool. Further you can with an geometrical add operation add another tail/shape form and also deform that accordingly.

Other than that, see also:

Which you can also reuse/change/tweak to your needs (with the Node tool etc.) as described above!

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I'd recommend creating a bubble styles Affinity document or maybe a speech bubble assets group if your'e doing a fair bit of comics work - also recommend creating your bubbles as compounds which is super easy and super powerful - the easiest way to do this is select two objects (maybe the body of your bubble and the tail) then hold down alt (option) on the mac (prob be something different on PC) and click on the unify (Add) boolean icon - alternatively, in Pub via menu, go 'Layer', 'Geometry', 'Add' again while holding down alt (option) and in Designer compound is a standard option in the Layer menu.

Heres a quick screen grab vid detailing the benefits:

Also when holding down alt (option) while selecting an item that is part of a compound (inside the compound layer) then drag will duplicate as part of the compound (shown in vid at 01.34) - hope this helps?

 

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