So What's the Big Deal with Horizontal & Vertical Bezier Handles Anyway? - Design Tutorials
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Have you ever seen Illustrator progress shots from your favourite designers and wondered how and why their bezier handles are so obsessively arranged We're

This for me was one of the big game changer articles I ran into years ago while I was improving my skills in Illustrator. Highly recommended.