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Combining drawing tools

Combining drawing tools

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Combining drawing tools

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll see how you can combine the effects of various drawing and editing tools inside Illustrator to achieve a specific task. And so, the idea is that even though the Pen tool is the most powerful tool in your arsenal, there's other tools as well. And the name of the game is achieving the best possible bezier curves. And so I'm going to turn on the template layer once again here inside the Layers panel. And notice the chin down here. I could draw it with the Pen tool, of course, bearing in mind that it is a kind of ellipse. Or I could just draw it with the Ellipse tool. And so I'm going to go ahead and select the Ellipse tool from the Shape tool fly-out menu. And then I'll drag in order to create an ellipse. And I'll use the spacebar in order to align that ellipse on the fly. So the spacebar is going to allow me to move that ellipse as I like, on the fly, as I draw it. And then as soon as I get it into the desired location, I'll release the spacebar. And…

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