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Drawing straight lines

Drawing straight lines - Illustrator Tutorial

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Drawing straight lines

- [Instructor] All right. Now we'll turn our attention to the various limbs, including the trunk of the tree, all of which are straight lines that we'll be drawing with the line segment tool. And so I'll go ahead and switch over to my document so far, and then I'll click and hold on the ellipse tool in order to bring up the shape tool fly out menu and I'll select the line segment tool from the end of the list. And if for some reason you are not seeing that tool, it means that you're working inside a different so-called workspace. And so to switch things back to the way they are by default, you go up to this option right here, near the top-right corner of the screen, click on it, and then choose Essentials from the list. If that still doesn't solve the problem, return to this menu and choose Reset Essentials. And that will reestablish Illustrator's default settings. All right, now I'm going to go ahead and drag from the…

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