From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals

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- All right, now that we've had our obligatory sojourn into text, let's get back to what you're supposed to be doing in Illustrator, which is illustrating. Now so far, everything we've drawn has been something Illustrator can make for us. In the traditional realm, I can't draw an absolutely perfect circle, but the robot that is Illustrator can. But let's say you don't want to draw a circle. In fact, you almost never want to draw a circle. You want to draw any old thing you like. In which case, good news, because in all but one of the following chapters, and frankly throughout the rest of this entire one-on-one series, that's what we're going to do. Starting now, in this chapter, I'm going to show you how to take the things we've made so far, circles, lines, stars, whatever, and combine them into more custom, dare I say more elaborate, path outlines. That's a term by the way, two words one term, path outlines. That's what Adobe calls every line and shape that you create in Illustrator. Path outlines, or if you want to be casual, just plain paths. So for example, a straight line is a path, a circle is a path, and then you can combine them together to make even more awesome paths. Here, let me show you how to take a path that's basic and turn it into something that's less basic.

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