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

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Drawing one point at a time

Drawing one point at a time - Illustrator Tutorial

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

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Drawing one point at a time

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- Illustrator's pencil and painting tools are all very well and good. In fact, if you ask me, they're very well and great. But from Illustrator's perspective, they amount to an attempt to understand a foreign language. Think of it this way, when you drag, particularly with a mouse, you draw a rough, irregular line. In previous versions of Illustrator, the program tried to smooth that line using an averaging algorithm. The result was a glumpy version of what you originally drew, only it looked like wiggly, garbagey junk. Nowadays both the pencil and the blob brush are so smart, they try to predict your intentions. Illustrator may interpret one gesture as a straight segment, the next as a smooth arc. In fact, if you take a close look at the stuff we created in the last two chapters, just about everything can be construed as a combination of lines and variously scaled arcs. In other words, Illustrator is translating your gestures to the points and segments that it thinks you are meaning…

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