From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
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Drawing with the Line tools - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
Drawing with the Line tools
- [Instructor] Illustrator has a neat little family of five line tools, things that will draw or related to lines. So let's have a look at those. First of all, I'm done with this tray of simple shapes here, so I'm going to just close that. Then, I'll just long press on the line tool in the toolbox, and you can press the backslash key on your keyboard to identify that if you can't see it. I'll then move my cursor out until I see the bar on the right-hand side go dark and then click. So I've got the tool ready to go. And in the document I've prepared for you here, you can see the line tool shortcut in the top corner there, and I've added some additional keys, so Alt or Option down here to draw from the center, and Shift to constrain. So you've got no excuse there for not remembering. Now this is a three art board document so just to show you before we begin, if I click here in the art board navigation area, we've got art…
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