Start with our sample file or use your own. After you launch Illustrator, click Edit Toolbar (three dots) at the bottom of the Tools panel. Select the Puppet Warp tool and drag it into your Tools panel.

Group the parts of your artwork you wish to manipulate.

With the grouped objects selected, click the Puppet Warp tool. Some pins appear, indicating “joints” you can manipulate. Click and drag pins to transform the art, adding more pins as needed to sculpt your artwork. For example, we added a pin to anchor our character’s elbow joint and curved the arm up. To delete pins, select and press Delete.

Tip: You can turn off the mesh in the Properties panel if you find it distracting.

Experiment with bending other body parts. You can introduce subtle curves by rotating the dotted circle around a pin.

Now that you’ve seen how easy it is to create multiple poses, don’t stop there. You can apply these smooth adjustments to any vector artwork, including typography.