most designers do not use the illustrator curve pen tool are you one of
these designers today I'm going to show you what the illustrator curve tool is
and why it's so useful for being creative in Adobe Illustrator
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sure we all know what the illustrator pen tool is and you can access that by
pressing P on your keyboard but right next to in the tool bar is actually the
illustrator curve tool I'm going to show you how to get creative with this tool
in today's tutorial it really does make life so much easier when drawing curves
in Illustrator with the illustrator curve tool selected click once like we
do with the pen tool and then click again you're going to notice that there
are no handles an illustrator uses software to predict the kind of curve
that you want to make depending on where you place the points
you do not need to stretch our handles to make the curves you literally just
click and plot points you essentially let illustrator do the hard work on
making the curves crisp and smooth so it's good to have in mind what kind of
path that you want to take for example I'm going to make a bubble text letter C
and I can make that with ease
you closed the curve tool path as you will be the pen tool
however from here you can either click and drag the point is to edit the path
or you can click on the path and add new points it might take some time getting
used to and also adjusting the curve to what you want but in my experience this
tool is a lot easier to use when making curves in Adobe Illustrator than the pen
tool so as you can see here I'm just adjusting the letter C and the path as I
scan around the letter next in today's illustrator curve tool tutorial I'm
going to show you some quick and the effects for making bubble star lettering
using the curve pen tool you can press shift annexing combination on your
keyboard to flick the stroke over to a fill so here have a letter S with a
gradient overlay to add some texture and some cool effects I can take the
illustrator curve tool and make a shape that will represent light then simply go
to effects I locate the Gaussian blur and select the preview option to see
your effects in real time
after you've added the gaussian blur' you can alter it thereafter with the
selection tools or you can actually use the curve tool as well then you can
always experiment with different blend layer modes in the transparency window
so for example I'm going to finally settle on soft light as a blend mode
because I feel that blends in well with the design so my question for you guys
is have you ever used illustrator curve pencil I hope that you can see how
useful it can be when designing creative freehand designs in Adobe Illustrator
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