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Creating with the shape builder tool

Creating with the shape builder tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating with the shape builder tool

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(whooshing) - [Teacher] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. When I shape build in Illustrator, I almost always use the pathfinder exclusively to create my vector artwork. That said, there's a few other tools that can assist in shape building efforts. I want to cover one of them in this movie and that is the shape builder tool. So let me show you how you can use it to build your vector motifs. Now the first thing you have to keep in mind when using the shape building tool is you need shapes. Meaning you need to figure out all the ingredients, all the vector elements that are going to make up your final design before you start building. That's the best way to approach it. Now what a lot of people do, in this case we're going to make a crown, but what a lot of people do which I don't really like is they'll select everything. Then they'll go to the shape building tool. Then if you go over areas that you don't need, then you go minus like this. They'll remove stuff they don't…

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