From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
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Drawing polygons and stars - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
Drawing polygons and stars
- [Instructor] Let's take a look at how we can draw polygons and stars. Now there isn't a key that you can press by default to access the tools for those, so what we're going to do is from our full tool box here, and if you don't have that, go to the Window menu and you'll find it in Toolbars. We're going to long press on whichever tool is present in this stack, either the Rectangle Tool or the Rounded Rectangle Tool, and then move over to the edge of that long strip you can see there and click, which will bring you out the whole tray like so. So let's pick up the polygon tool and we'll go to the center of this target just here because all polygons and stars are drawn from the center out. And then simply mouse down or press down and drag outwards like so. Now by default you will be drawing a hexagon, however if you use the up arrow keys, you will add more sides as you draw it, and don't stop drawing by the way because…
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