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Pencil tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Illustrator on the iPad
Pencil tool
- [Instructor] Okay, so I'm just going to clear down the contents of the layer that I have created, but I'm still going to use it. So hopefully you have a layer here as well. I'm also going to collapse and lock the drawer layer beneath, oops, sorry, I accidentally hit it, there we go. So lock that like so, and now we can draw on what is layer three, and let's rename that to planet or moon, that would have been quicker to type really, but there you go, that's me all over. We're then going to switch to the first of our actual drawing tools, and that would be the pencil tool, okay, which is like the fourth icon down in the toolbox. And then we can just draw the moon surface or that sort of curve across the top there. But before we do that, we're going to go ahead and have a look at this smoothing option here. We're going to turn smoothing off completely. Okay, and then draw across like so. So you can let your hand…
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Edit a document preset1m 27s
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Import Assets2m 7s
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Add Layers1m
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Draw polygons3m 6s
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Modify anchor points2m 53s
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Use a flip transform1m 54s
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Modify stroke weights2m 17s
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Outline stroke2m 4s
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Work with groups1m 37s
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Combine shapes2m 16s
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Pencil tool4m 8s
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Convert combined shapes1m 3s
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Add a linear gradient3m 5s
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Layer options3m 23s
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Pen tool4m 56s
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Working with paths3m
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Challenge: Draw the face31s
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Solution: Draw the face5m 7s
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Use path segments4m 58s
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Gradient transparency1m 47s
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Clipping masks2m 13s
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