From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
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Drawing polygons and stars - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
Drawing polygons and stars
- [Instructor] The two other shapes that we can concern ourselves with here in this family of basic shapes are the polygon tool and the star tool. So I'll select the polygon tool to start off with. Now, polygons are always drawn from the center outwards, and if I click and drag. Now without releasing, because once you have stopped drawing, there's another way to change the number of sides, but without releasing, I'll use the up arrow here and the down arrow, you'll see that I can change the number of sides of my shape. Now if I stop at this particular point just here, where I've drawn this pentagon, you'll notice the corner widgets. There's only one here with a polygon. Okay, I can drag those in like so to round off the corners. And also on one of the sides of your box, depends on the angle that it's at, you will also find this widget and the widget allows you to change the number of sides of your polygon. You…
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