When drawing more complex objects like faces, you will often run into situations where you want an outline to only go partway around a shape. There's an easy way to accomplish this in Moho.
For this tutorial, we'll start with a project file that's almost finished. It's named "Tutorial 2.3" and it's located in the "Tutorials/2 - Draw" subfolder within the main Moho folder. Open this file in Moho and you should see something like this:
Starting point for this tutorial.
The drawing we're working with could be the beginning of a character's face. In this face, the nose and ear are separate shapes from the main head outline. The general shape looks OK, but where the separate parts join up we don't want to have lines separating them. To fix this, activate the Hide Edge tool. There are two edges we want to eliminate from this drawing. Click on these two edges as shown below. If you don't see an immediate result, try dragging the mouse across the lines in question to make sure you hit them.
Edges to click on.
After clicking on these edges, they should disappear from view, and the result should be as follows:
After hiding the edges.
The Hide Edge tool works by simply hiding the selected edges of an outline. It does not affect the underlying curve - the curve is still there, you just can't see the outline on that particular section of the curve. Because it works on the outline, and not the curve itself, be sure you only use the Hide Edge tool after you've created the outlines. Otherwise, with no outline, you would not see the result of hiding some edges.
The other thing to know about the Hide Edge tool is that you can also un-hide edges. If you change your mind, or hide the wrong edges, just click on a hidden edge to re-show it.
If you hide the edges of a thicker line, you'll often end up with abrupt ends to the outline. You can see this below:
Blocky curve ends.
A nice way to finish off these endpoints is to use the Line Width tool. With this tool, click on the endpoints to set their width to 0. You can also click and drag to adjust the width of any other points you choose. After cleaning up the endpoints, you should get a result like this:
Tapered endpoints.