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Drawing tools

Drawing tools - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing tools

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Now let's talk about the drawing tools including the Pen tool which is probably the most commonly used tool in Illustrator. This is the most precise drawing tool as well because it allows you to define each anchor point individually and if you just click, click, click you will draw straight lines or if you click and drag you can create curved line segments and when you click and drag you essentially define the handles so there's one handle there but Illustrator automatically creates another handle on the other side which allows for the next curve segment to continue smoothly so to continue from the previous segment to the new one in a smooth way so we can see if I click again this looks like a really nice smooth curve. However if you want to create a single curve segment and then go straight into another straight segment you can click and drag but then click on this anchor point once more just simply click once and notice how we can now draw another straight line. If you hold down the…

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