From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
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Understanding paths and attributes - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
Understanding paths and attributes
So we know that in Illustrator our artwork has both structure and presentation. In this movie, I want to focus on how we actually define those two things--which is by drawing paths and applying attributes to them. First, let's talk about paths. As we discussed, paths define the structure of our artwork, and Illustrator features many different tools that we can use to create or draw these paths; for example, Illustrator has the Pen tool, the Pencil tool. But I am going to focus here on just one of the primitive drawing tools; for example, the Ellipse tool. I am going to click and drag to draw out a path right here. Now, as you can see, the path itself has being created, and there are these anchor points that are here, and if I switch to my Direct Selection tool and I select one of those anchor points, you'll see that these control handles appear as well. Now, the default setting inside of Illustrator for this document was set to a white fill on a black stroke--something which we'll…
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