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Creating with the Pencil tool

Creating with the Pencil tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating with the Pencil tool

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(electronic whirring) - [Instructor] Welcome to drawing vector graphics laboratory. Not everything in Adobe Illustrator needs to be created using the pin tool. Too many people default to that and discover some shapes are just really hard to create using a pen tool. So in this movie, I'm going to show you imperfect shapes that are best created using the pencil tool instead. With the recent updates to this tool, it's more useful than it ever has been before. So let's jump into this. In the midst of a project, I was asked if I could create some spot illustrations, specifically of fruit. That's not really why I was hired, but that's fine. It was all part of a packaging assignment. And I was provided this reference photo. This was kind of the positioning and the perspective they wanted on the fruit. And I said, I can work with this. So this is a good example of me not actually drawing anything and building what I drew…

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