Vector Drawing - Pen Tool Basics

Topics Covered:

• Pen Tool
• Bezier Handles
• Add/Delete Anchor Point Tool
• Convert Anchor Point Tool
• Direct Select tool

Resources

Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

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Pen Tool: So we've already have experience working with vector paths from the last class. The pen tool allows us to create our own custom vector shapes. It creates a shape, referred to as a path by creating anchors. Anchors are where the path of our shape goes

Use the pen tool to plot anchor point to create vector shapes.

Pen Tool



Draw Curves with the Pen Tool 

 

Direct Select Tool:

Add and Subtract Anchor Points

 

Convert Anchor Point Tool