From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
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The Curvature Pen tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
The Curvature Pen tool
- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the curvature pencil, which is a relatively new addition to Illustrator. It's only been around for a few years and to perfectly honest, I was not a fan when it first arrived. I didn't know why it had been introduced. But now I absolutely love it. Let's select that. You can use the shortcut if you like. Shift + Back take, to get that. Although it does neighbor, the ordinary pencil, ordinary, as if there's such a thing, pencil just here in the toolbox. Now circles are the hardest thing people find to draw with the pencil, because it's all that pressing and dragging and all of that stuff. Well, the experience here with the curvature pencil, is very, very different. I'm going to go ahead and find a major intersection here at which I wish to click and click. I'm going to move down diagonally to the next major intersection and click there. And it looks like I've drawn a straight line.…
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