From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Create better, faster with round corners

Create better, faster with round corners - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals

Start my 1-month free trial

Create better, faster with round corners

“

- All right, now we'll take a look at how you can draw an absolutely organic piece of artwork using rounded corners. If properly applied, you wouldn't believe how time-saving these things could be and so notice here that we've got this logo a kind of graphic icon that I drew from scratch using the pen tool and so if I were to press the "a" key to switch to the wide arrow tool and click on one of these curves you can see that each one of them involves its own set of anchor points and control handles and so while this is a very efficient use of anchor points if I do say so myself and we have a very smooth drawing it took a lot of time and effort and so counting the design process it took me hours to put this together and you can imagine that drawing each one of these ridges by itself took an awfully long time. Whereas let's compare it to the version of the artwork that I drew using round corners…

Contents