what is up people welcome back to Satori graphics the home of graphic
design content right here on YouTube so today I've got five different pen tool
alternatives to use in a doobie illustrator my five illustrator pencil
alternatives are really gonna broaden your horizons
when drawing and designing in Illustrator
the five illustrator pen two alternatives are all useful in them
right but I'm not saying you should stop using the pen to an illustrator
altogether as it does have a time in a place the first illustrator pen to
alternative is one that I use myself today on a logo design it's a divide
function in the Pathfinder window so as you can see here I have a selection of
shapes once I use a divide function I have to engrave them from here you can
remove areas of the design and edit the remaining aspects this is great for
making unique shapes and designs quickly without the use for this trait event or
the next Pinto alternative is great for designing digital arts and drawings
within illustrator you will find the blob brush tool here the shortcut being
Shift + B on your keyboard with this tool you can draw out sections like so
which we initially be a stroke however if you then press the command or the
control key over the selection you will become united as a vector shape now this
is great for digital drawing and digital arts it's often used to create underlays
of a design or a piece of artwork third illustrator pen tool alternative
utilizes two different tools within a day bill astray tur
so first grab the pencil tool here and then you can freehand draw shapes and
designs on your canvas not caring too much about being needs you can hold down
shift which will draw straight lines at 45-degree angles once you've drawn out
your shapes or designs you can then take the join tool here and carefully draw
over the selections I have overlaid each other you might
need to keep reflect in the design with a selection tool and then go back to the
join to afterwards this is quite a cool alternative to using the pen tool in
Illustrator the fourth pen - alternative in today's video is one I've shown many
different times on this channel is the shape builder tool I use this so often
in my design work and it's a great pen tool alternative much like with the
divide function we used earlier you can make shapes and designs for other shapes
hold down the option key to remove areas that you don't want and then release it
and draw over the areas that you want to unite together this is a great pen tool
alternative for things like the logo designs the last illustrator pen -
alternative today is a sharper tool now this one's a little bit difficult to get
used to and I very rarely use it myself
you can draw rough lines and interest rate or straighten them up for you
when you want to remove areas of your design draw a squiggly line here with
the area and what you disappear this is good for simple geometric straight edge
designs but like I said it does take some time getting used to so there was
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