When I move my cursor away from the first anchor point, I see a colored line connecting the anchor point to my cursor. To do this, I'll click on the box labeled a to create the first anchor point. Now, with the Pen tool active, I'm ready to start drawing a straight line. The first thing I'll need to do is activate the pen tool by clicking on it in the Tools Panel. I'll start out with demonstrating how to draw straight lines with the pen tool in a document that I already have open. But with a little practice, will get the hang of using the pen tool and no time. The pen tools to your power makes it a little intimidating to use it first. The pen tool, in contrast, enables us to add one anchor point at a time, determining the curve or lack thereof of each line segment. All we really do is specify where on our art board the shape is made and how large the shape is. When drawing shapes with the shape tools, illustrator creates all of the anchor points and paths that we need to create the shape.
Working with the Pen tool is a little bit different than working with the shape tools. Then I'll demonstrate how to use the pen tool to create straight lines. In this video, I'll explain the basic concepts behind how the pen tool works. If this isn’t the case, navigate to the location where you extracted the exercise files instead of the desktop.ĭescription of the video:The Pen Tool is a very powerful tool that can be used to make all sorts of objects in Illustrator. NOTE: The following steps assume you have downloaded and extracted the exercise files to your computer’s desktop. To make it a little easier for us to see what we're doing, we'll use the Zoom tool to zoom in on the Straight Line section of the artboard before we start drawing. Let's open a file with some templates we can use for practice, then practice drawing straight lines. To explore how the Pen tool works, we'll start out by drawing straight lines, then we'll experiment with drawing curved lines. The Pen tool's sheer power makes it a bit intimidating at first, but with a little practice, mastery is not especially difficult-and it's well worth the effort. The Pen tool, in contrast, works by creating one anchor point at a time, letting us determine the curvature (or lack thereof) of each line segment as we go. When drawing with the shape tools, Illustrator creates all of the anchor points and line segments needed to create the shape-all we really do is specify where and how large that shape is.
Working with the Pen tool is a bit different than working with the shape tools. While the Pen tool can be a difficult tool to master, it's also a powerful tool that allows us to create all sorts of different objects.
We'll use a couple of different tools to create the sailboat, the first of which is the Pen tool. So far, our landscape scene consists of a pond surrounded by grass now, let's create a sailboat to go in the pond.
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