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The Curvature Pen tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
The Curvature Pen tool
- [Tony] Just to right of the Pen tool in the toolbox in front of us, we can see another Pen tool icon. And that is the Curvature Pen tool and that's what we're going to work with now. And this was introduced just a few years ago, and to be honest, when I first came across it, I did not like it very much at all. But now I love it, and in fact its method of drawing is adopted by things like freeform gradients, so it is worth persevering with it. If you remember in the previous movie, when we were drawing with the Pen tool, we had to click and drag to draw curves, in fact they're much more difficult to do than straight shapes because you just simply click to plot points. Here though we're going to do something different. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to click at an intersection like so. I'm then going to come diagonally down to the next intersection and click there. Now at the moment it looks like we've drawn a…
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