today we'll jump right into a quick video on illustrator pen tool techniques
as well as general tips on drawing designs using Adobe Illustrator I tried
a new timeslot yesterday for uploading and it was seems such a bad view count
I'm going to revert back to the old time slot but anyway let's get started with
some quick illustrator the pen tool techniques that you may not know drawing
around shapes or creating curved shapes for a logo design for example can be
quite tricky especially for beginner designers there's a quick and simple way
to do things however click anchor points with the pen tool using straight lines
only like so if you then hold down the alt/option key whilst hovering your
cursor over the pen tool path you can click and drag the line like so don't
worry if it doesn't match up fully because we can hold down the command key
for a Mac or the ctrl key for Windows to manipulate the Bezier handles one at a
time
also using the command or the control key we can move an anchor point on its
own you may find that this illustrator pen tool technique allows you to make
crisp and smooth shapes with ease using illustrator
went wrong shape to the pen tool illustrator you helps if you have smart
guide switched on this will show you magenta lines that allow you to keep
your designs perfectly aligned a no point
so let's make three anchor points you can hold down shift to make sure you
follow in a straight line heading downwards however if we use the auto
option key again to drag out the line we can also hold down shift simultaneously
and it brings the pen tool path outwards parallel to the point on the line like
so
normally we can stretch the curve all over the place but holding down shift
allows us to keep things level if we then connect the path like so and again
use the option key we can stretch out the path to finish half of the shape
this pen tool technique is one that you should remember and you can use in your
graphic design work where needed it will help you a lot this next technique for
drawing shapes or designs in Illustrator isn't really about the pen tool rather
it helps us move away from using the pen tool if you don't want to be using it we
can take the brush tool and draw outlines roughly drawing as we would
with a pen or pencil on a piece of paper
the cool thing about this technique is that we didn't have to be accurate with
our drawing
once happy take the join tool here and simply draw over the path where it
connects illustrator would join the vector path and you would then end up
with a solid shape with no use of the pencil at all the Satori bonus tip of
the day relates of saving time when using the pen tool or drawing any shapes
with illustrator if you design a symmetrical why not just draw half of
the design group everything together but ctrl or command G and then use the
reflect tool if you remember this technique you will save a lot of time in
geographic assign work for sure so did you find this quick video to illustrate
a pencil techniques helpful let me know in the comment section below also leave
a comment if you want to see more videos based around illustrator pen tool I know
it can be quite hard for you to get used to especially for beginner designers I'm
going to move back to the normal time slot uploads as I barely had any views
on yesterday's video but yeah have a great weekend everyone and remember to
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video so until next time design your future today peace