From the course: Learning Illustrator Draw
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Drawing assistance
- [Instructor] If you're watching this course sequentially, then you will have seen a couple of things from the Drawing Assistance features in Illustrator Draw which are accessed via the icon at the top that looks like a triangle and a circle. If I tap there, these are our drawing assistants, so we've got some lines and basic shapes at the top here and then some French curves, some polygons and then a few other stamping shapes just there. The first one in the Lines and Basic Shapes is what is known as Touch Slide and it is a ruler like so essentially that you can use or a straight edge is perhaps a better way of expressing that that you can use to draw along. So, if I just come along and draw down here, you can see I've got a nice straight edge there, if I move it with one finger, then it stays parallel to the angle that you're moving along there like so, nice and easy to work with. And you can rotate that around and it usually snaps to around 45-degree increments. Let me just see if…
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