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Drawing freeform path outlines

Drawing freeform path outlines - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing freeform path outlines

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll introduce you to the new and improved pencil tool. Now assuming you created that Center Guides template a few chapter back, go up to the File menu and choose New from Template or you can press that keyboard shortcut of CTRL + Shift + N, or Command + Shift + N on the Mac. Then locate your template, in my case case, it's called RGB with center guides.ait and click on the New button, and you'll end up with a blank document. Now I'll go ahead and select the pencil tool which is located midway down the toolbox. If you don't see it at this location, go ahead and click and hold and choose the pencil tool from the flyout menu. Now if you've upgraded to the most recent version of Illustrator, you'll see that the pencil shares a flyout menu with the shaper tool, as well as the join tool, both of which we saw in the previous chapter. Also, notice that it has a keyboard shortcut of N. And the reason…

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