Today, I learned about the Pen Tool and how powerful and important this tool offers. Even though the Pencil and Paintbrush Tool are very handy when it comes to drawing paths, the most important and complicated is the Pen Tool because it allows you to purposefully place anchor points in a path. To use the …
Category Archives: Core Drawing Principles
Pencil Tool
In this lesson, I learned about the Pencil Tool and its usefulness when creating paths. The Pencil Tool inside of Illustrator is a freehand drawing tool. To start, head to the Pencil Tool in the Tools Panel and double-click, opening a box. Here you can change its fidelity, fill new pencil strokes, keep selected, toggle …
Open Path Tools
Today, I learned about different Open Path Tools and their unique, unlimiting functions that change its appearance. To begin, head to the Line Tool in the Tools Panel, then click and hold to reveal the hidden tools. Then, click the arrow on the right side to create a tearaway where only the icons show in …
Live Corners
In today’s lesson, I learned about Live Corners, how they manipulate a shape’s corners, and different options when working with it. Live Corners is a feature that allows you to modify the corners after the fact. To start, create a shape that has corners by selecting a Shape Tool and clicking and dragging on the …
Drawing Modes
In this lesson, I learned about the three different drawing modes and their purposes and how to use them. Heading towards the bottom of the Tools Panel, there’s 3 little buttons. These represent the different drawing modes available to you. By default, the Normal drawing mode is selected. The one to the right is called …
Polygon Star Tools
Today, I learned about the other shape tools, namely Polygon, Star, and Flare, and their different capabilities. When drawing with Polygon Tool, the default shape it will create is a hexagon. To add or reduce the number of shapes, use the arrow keys. The same drawing functions of the rectangle tools are still applied to …
Drawing Basic Shapes
In today’s lesson, I learned how to draw, create , and customize shapes in Illustrator. On the tool bar which is on the right hand side, locate the rectangle icon. This is the Rectangle Tool and it creates rectangles, and on the flip side, you can toggle the shape by clicking and holding down, revealing …
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