I have three illustrator pen tool tricks that you may not have heard of or
you don't use very often in today's illustrator pen tool tutorial
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lead you to my portfolio website the smooth tool can help easily erase bumps
or imperfections in your pen tool paths so if you're not perfect with the pen
tool like most of us this tool will really help you to show you how it works
I'm going to make an outline on this deer antler here with the pen tooll but I'm
going to make sure it has a few kinks and bumps in it basically not perfect
line
so as you can see the line is nice smooth curve we can change that very
easily with the smooth tool in Illustrator select the line and then
grab the smooth tool here take your time to go back in and draw a rough idea of
where you want the pen tool path to go and watch as the line corinthis out for
these
you can see how this pen tool trick really will save you time and hassle with your
designs in Illustrator
the next illustrator pen tool trick is based around the path eraser tool
normally if you want to cut out a section of a pencil path you need to
select the scissor tool and then click selections on the path and leave them
with a selection tool manually the quicker and more efficient ways to grab
the eraser tool here and then with the eraser part of the icon draw along the
part of the path you want to delete it simply disappears in an instant this
pen tool trick really saves you a lot of time
with who is a great add-on for designer to use illustrator for such things as
illustrations and cartoon style artwork it allows you to change the thickness of
a pen tool path anywhere along the line you can find it here
as you can see you simply place the whistle on your path and click and drag
to make it thinner or thicker
let's had a super thick bushy eyebrow on a full full man here so with the pen tool
I'm going to do a line in Illustrator and I grab the weights cool it's a great
tool because you can have more control with the thickness of the pen tool path
anywhere along the line something the default stroke settings cannot provide
so that looks about right now I want to outline the stroke and then place it in
the right place so did you find my three illustrator pen tool tricks helpful living
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