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Extending and connecting paths

Extending and connecting paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Extending and connecting paths

In this movie I'll show you how to extend and connect paths using the pencil tool. So you can see that I've gone ahead and filled my heart, and I have given a thick stroke as well. I'm going to go ahead and select a pencil tool, which once again you can get by pressing the N key. And let's say I want to draw some sort of frills around my heart. I'll just go ahead and start drawing like so. And, then at any point you can release so you don't have to get the entire shape done in one drag, in other words. And I'll go ahead and double click on the pencil tool just so that you can see that by default, these three check boxes right here, the first one is turned off, so it doesn't automatically fill your shapes. But if you were to carry it on, it would automatically fill your shape, so that's up to you. An then, notice that it goes ahead and keeps things selected. It goes ahead and keeps that last path selected, by default, which is a good thing because that way you can edit that selected…

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