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Using the drawing modes

Using the drawing modes - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the drawing modes

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- [Instructor] Let's draw something together. Get yourself a new document. It doesn't really matter about the size or anything like that. Just a new document like this one. And what I'm going to ask you to do is to tap L on your keyboard to get the ellipse tool. Now, before we go running away drawing, what I'd like you to do is to come over to the Properties panel, or at the control strip, and change the fill color. Now, at the moment in my document, mine's set up to have none but that's just because this comes from a template that sets that up. So I'm going to click here and I'm going to choose a red color to start off with. Click and drag to draw an ellipse. It doesn't matter if it's circular or not. That's not really important. And what you could do is you could also increase the stroke weight a little bit perhaps so it's nice and easy to see. Okay, we're going to deselect that. So go to the Select…

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