Illustrator pen tool tutorial, today I have five really awesome pen tool
tips for adobe illustrator that will
save you time and headaches
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Tom here with another graphic design
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and my five awesome pen tool tips I had
today are not the basics of such if you
want me to make a video on the basics of
using the pen tool in Illustrator let me
know in the comment section below my
five pen tool tips are a little more
advanced than the mere basics if you
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dive into these pen tool tips
my first awesome pen tool tip has two
parts to it let's say that we want to
create a shape for a logo design and
have a rough sketch of how it's going to
look at being said you may want to
freehand draw with a pen tool which is not
a continuous line if you hit shift
command a on a Mac or shift control a on
a PC you would disallow that pen tool so
you can move to a new point for freehand
drawing any stage
the second part is that we can overlap
pass like so because we don't have be
precise was freehand drawing later we
can grab the join tool here I rub out
the unwanted lines like so
my design here is just a way to show you
the technique it is also very useful for
drawing vector art in Illustrator to the
next awesome pen tool tip and Adobe
Illustrator saves a lot of time whilst
using the pen tool you may need to edit
or move your path by the way to recreate
in the line you would normally have to
click on to the to selection tools over
here in the tool window if you would
resize a line or move it hold down
command on an apple for control on a PC
and you will then be able to move your
line around the resizer if you hold down
shift works resizing the scale will be
proportional
also with the pen tool selected if you
hold down the alt or the option key you
can then turn points into anchor points
and edit a line like so this will save
time and hassle of having to choose the
selection tools and hopping back to the
pen tool over and over
I use this pen tool tips so often is very
simple yet a design life hack saver you
may need to never get your scream around
so that you can see different parts of
your design there's no need to select
off up your path just hold down the
spacebar until you see this icon up here
and then click around your screen like
so
another space guy related tip is that
when you are making your path and you
make a new point hold down your click
and then hold down the space bar you can
move the points location while still
being on the path even if you're editing
an anchor point you can still use the
spacebar to move its location the last
awesome pencil tip for a table a
straighter is based around the shift key
if we make a point and then hold down
shift we control the perfect line
horizontally on the new point and we can
hold down shift then you will see that
you could draw a line perfectly 45
degrees 90 degrees 135 degrees and 180
degrees in both directions from any
point you wish
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Illustrator pen tool tutorial