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Using the basic shapes and polygons

Using the basic shapes and polygons

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Using the basic shapes and polygons

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- [Narrator] Illustrator Draw also gives us a few other basic things that we can work with to draw more accurately. If I tap for the drawing assistance at the top, you can see that I've got some basic shapes here. I have a circle, a square, and a triangle. I'm going to tap the square just to use that. And we can change the size of that by pinching and reverse pinching in and out whilst inside the shape. Now you can draw around all or part of that, as I'm doing just now. Okay. So you can do that. Or if you want to, you can simply double tap inside the shape to rule around it at a consistent weight. I'm going to make that slightly smaller now. You can also change the shape itself by using the double arrow at the bottom. All you do is press there and drag left and right to change the nature of the shape. And you can twist with two fingers as well to reorient the shape to a different direction. And you'll get a small display that it will tell you the number of degrees, okay, that you are…

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