everybody welcome to another illustrator cs6 tutorial
and in this one we're going to learn how to draw with the pen tool
and other tools that come with the pen tool
over here on the left is the pen tool
and the hockey is P and it looks like a pop white
are like some kinda old school style Penn the tip a bit at least
and something to help you out would be to
make sure you don't have any Phil on and go ahead and put down a stroke
and you can leave your show care one or two or something like that
doesn't matter so the first thing you gonna do
is go ahead and click and what you done
is you've created and anchor point now whether
with the pen tool what you're doing is you're creating paths
and the Pats consist the I'm curved or straight segments connected by anchor
points
effect click again might create
second anchor point and what I've done is a created anchor point and another
anchor for here and the path connects those
now if I need wanna create like a polygon
or a triangle on do is continue to make another anchor point and then click the
last anchor point that I add
are clicked on the first anchor point that I had a main
and they're all closed up %uh this is
called a closed path when you end at the first anchor point that you created
that's called the close path affect created another path
here
and maybe I use three anchor points or to anchor points
and left her like this this will be called an open path
if you control hold our control and click
its quantity select and just leave it as an open path and that way you won't be
creating I another path from
are another path from your last use anchor point so those are how you create
the street segments
and they always come and I'll
a certain degree angles here they're not curved at all there's
their sharp edges I'm gonna show you how to create
a curved line I started down here
first you're gonna click and you're gonna drag and you can see that these
handles are coming up
and you can use it use the Smart Guides to give yourself
and I idea have your ankles their
click drag and let go and that create your first anchor point come to your
second anchor point Craig click drag it
on and then you'll get a curved
so if you keep cuba and raking in the same way they did before
then again esker you got dragged the absolute way
you're just gonna get a regular curves and I like oh and you can see that out
that I Eric
her the line you can continue to drop more
points and
in your actual curves and then
if you want to you can close Nariko
and now you created a closed curved path
now would you working with these curves at sometimes it's hard
to get exactly what you wanted the first time around
the way you're going to be able to edit pat's an anchor points as by using the
Direct Selection tool which is the white one here
and hockey is a this way you can actually click on anchor points
and maneuver the handles so the
gay some type love path that
better fits where you're trying to make
you can move the handles and you can also move the anchor point itself
and
and minorities into some type love path that's gonna work a little bit better
for you
hoops I clicked the wrong
are year ago just moved this try to get them like on top of each other some like
that
and I'll try to make some kinda like infinity sign
and I
in close to doing it not perfect but if I
I desman over these little more into and and a little more patience and make this
I could make
an infinity sign their looks pretty cool
so that's how you manipulate the points
my show you some more things if you go to the pen to a click and hold
we've got a couple extra tools I EF at anchor point tool
and alleviate your point to all let's go to the attic 0.20
and will work on this path here that we made
you can work on any the pass a mate but will this work on this one if you go
ahead and click on the path
when he had at anchor point till it's going to add another anchor point now
you can't move that
again with the selection tool to create
new paths are to create new shapes
or I just an edit your shape the dilly anchor point tool is gonna do obviously
would
says it's gonna the Lee and her points a click on if you click on something
that's not an anchor point this is gonna come up
because you got a click on an anchor point to use it
if we go to the regular pen to again you can RTC that
when you hover over top love your path the
it changes to a plus sign in this automatically converts it to the attic
or .2 or
and I have added it and if I hold
hover over top of it it turns into the deli anchor point to all and I had
deleted that actual and cup
anchor point and
there we go sit on
always have to switch between it but that's up to you if you don't wanna mess
around and
create things there our Creator points by accident stuff like that
you want to just go around the leading you might want to change just at the Lee
anchor point to all
depends on what you're doing in your project the last thing I wanted to show
you for this tutorial
is the confer anchor point to all which is the last one underneath the pen tool
Ste and what this does is it covered the anchor points from
curved to I
stray or from straight to curved so if you have a straight one like I do here
at this point here
and a click I'm gonna drag and I'm
able to create a curved line effect click on it
after its curved and I just click its gonna change it back to a straight
I
try it down here on this path its fine anchor points here
is one I just click on this it's going to become
straight and their ago now week at
now have a couple straight-line are straight points and the acre
are Straker points so that's it for this tutorial
and I'll get a little bit more in depth with the
with the pen tool and the next tutorial
can go over some options for customizing outlooks and everything like that
so stay tuned for that tutorial worry and you learn how to gain more control
over pen tool
and set it up to your liking and after that
I guess just have a great day see you guys later