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Drawing a path one point at a time

Drawing a path one point at a time - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Drawing a path 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 draw, especially with a mouse, you may draw a rough, irregular line. Illustrator will do its best to turn your irregular line into exactly what you want. Now, behind the scenes, the magic of the Pencil and the Blob Brush are that 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 into the points and segments that it thinks you are meaning to create, which is great. But if…

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