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Drawing with the Grid tools - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
Drawing with the Grid tools
- [Instructor] Continuing our investigation of the line family of tools to wrap up this chapter. There are two tools here, the rectangular and polar grid tools that I use all the time. They are really, really useful for a lot of the work, I do. Now in the fall that I'm using here, I am simply going to go to art board four, for the rectangular scent and use command zero to zoom in on that. And then I'll pick up the rectangular grid tool. Now, bear in mind that anything I draw inside of this file is modified. So it will always have a magenta stroke and no fill. So you don't need to worry about anything here on the left-hand side. And what I'm going to do is go up to the top corner here and then click and drag across now am not going to release the trackpad or mouse button here. What I'm going to do is up arrow key, and you'll see that I'm adding more dividers vertically. And if I use my right arrow key, I'm adding more…
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