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Flash Kids' Corner: Taking Bobo to the Circus

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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From Lesson 1, you should remember how to create a new layer. Make a new layer underneath the layers where you’ve drawn Bobo.

With the Pen Tool, click to make a single point; when you just click, it makes a point that has a “sharp” edge; it doesn’t make any curves. Now click again, farther up—but this time when you click, drag the mouse before letting go, until you see new lines with little points on the tips start to appear. These lines are “handles”, and they mean that you can make the line curve.

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