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Pen tool

Pen tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Pen tool

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- [Instructor] Illustrator just would not be Illustrator without a pen tool, and that's what we're going to take a look at now in this movie. What we'll need to do first, however, is to add a layer for Space Jeff and that's going to be right at the very top of the stack. So add a new layer and we could call this Jeff, there we go, 'cause that's what he is to his friends, he's only Space Jeff formally of course, so let's go ahead and do that and then get the pen tool from the toolbox. So we're going to work our way around the outline of the body here using the pen tool. So I'm going to start in this area, just at the top of the neck here, just there, or the bottom of the neck really I ought to say, and I've just started out with a straightforward anchor point. I want to come along to the kind of maximum of this curve and click and drag like so. Now I'm going to just get rid of that gradient fill here, and what I'm going to…

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