From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Drawing with the Curvature tool

Drawing with the Curvature tool - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Drawing with the Curvature tool

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you the basics of drawing with the Curvature Tool, which is very different than anything that we've seen so far. I'm going to start things off like usual by going up to the File menu and choosing New from Template, and then I'll find that center guides template that I created oh so long ago now, and I'll go ahead and click on the New button in order to create a blank document. Now notice for starters that the Curvature Tool is located between the traditional Pen Tool and the Type Tool in the single column tool box. Also notice that it has a keyboard shortcut of Shift + ~. Tilde being that key once again in the upper left corner of an American keyboard. That's a pretty easy shortcut to remember because after all the Tilde character looks like that wiggly line coming out of the Curvature Tool's icon, and once I select the tool, there's literally a Tilde coming out of the cursor. Which in your case may be black by the way, but that's the only…

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