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Creating shapes

Creating shapes - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating shapes

Okay, now it's time for the fun to begin. We're going to start creating art from scratch. And I've given you this background, just so we don't have to look at this dull white page. If you create a new document however, it'll be white. So, I gave you this purple background and I locked it on a layer, which we don't have to get into that. But basically, you don't have to worry about bumping it or nudging it as we draw. Okay. Now, over here on the toolbar is the Rectangle tool. That should be what you see. If you don't, you may see one of these other shaped tools if you've been playing around before. And what's important about this is that these are just some basic shapes. They're a really easy way for us to get started. So, if we go over here and hold down on any of them, let's just choose the rectangle for now. Or, you know, one really easy way to work is to go ahead and grab this tear off and bring this shape panel now up so we have it easily accessible. All right. Now, in this…

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