From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
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The Shaper tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
The Shaper tool
- [Instructor] Let's look at another drawing tool here that you may like if you are working on a touch device, which I think it was initially designed for, or something like a Wacom tablet. What I'm going to do is come across here and choose the shaper tool, which you will find nested with the pencil tool in that particular family, and I'm also going to zoom in on the eye areas for this starfish. Now, I'm going to do that by holding down Command + Spacebar on my Macintosh and zooming in, like so. That'd be Control + Spacebar on Windows. And if you're getting the spotlight thing come up on your Mac, so, for example, if you do this, sometimes you get it. There you go, like that. You can actually change your system preferences and adjust the shortcut. On my own, for example, I use the Option key in addition to the others. But anyway, I digress. What I want to do here is I want to draw the eyes for the starfish.…
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