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When I release the key, I can carry on drawing. Now, as it turns out, this segment of the curve wasn't high enough, so it's easy to hold "Command" on a Mac, "Control" on a PC, just to pull that up and reshape the curve as we're drawing it. Let's go to the outside of this curve, and I can click and drag to draw a tangent to the curve, and now we can go all the way up here, click, and drag in the opposite direction. I want a corner point here, so I can hold "alt" or "Option", and click on that, and that makes a corner point. Now I can go into this corner, click and drag, to make that slight curve. Now I can release that key, click on that end point, and carry on drawing. I can drag them up, holding the shift key as I do so to keep my movement vertical, until this point now lines up precisely with the right edge of the pawn. Now, I can hold "Command" on a Mac, "Control" on a PC, and select both of those points by dragging over them. So, let's hold the shift key down to make this horizontal, and click just here, so that it lines up with the edge of the pawn.
![drawing outline drawing outline](https://st3.depositphotos.com/2518409/16621/v/950/depositphotos_166213156-stock-illustration-isolated-rose-outline-drawing-stock.jpg)
I don't want a curved base, I want a completely flat base for this, because I'm going to have it flat on the table. If I go over to the edge of the pawn here, you can see there's a curve on the photograph. So, as always with a pen tool, you think, "Where do you start drawing?" Well, I know I want to get a vertical line that I'm going to revolve the outline around, so let's start at the top, right in the center, and I'm going to hold the shift key as I go down to the bottom of the pawn, and, right away, we've got a bit of an issue. What I'm going to do is to use the pen tool to draw the outline of this pawn. Here's a photograph of another pawn from the chess set.