Drawing perfectly smooth outlines

Now that you have a sense for how control handles work inside Illustrator, let me show…you how to draw smooth points using the Pen tool, and you may recall smooth points are…those kinds of points that have opposing control handles that are moving in lock step with each other.…So I've gone ahead and restored the saved version of that file Ellipse exercise.ai,…so we only have the guidelines.…Make sure the ellipse layer is selected, and then go ahead and grab the Pen tool, which…you can get by pressing the P key.…Now notice that we have a little asterisk next to the cursor which is telling us that…we are going to start a new shape.…

And what I want you to do is drag from the intersection of the center guide right there…and the top guide as well.…And notice that the center guides--the vertical and horizontal center guides--are longer than…the other ones, so you cover the entire artboard.…I want you to start dragging there, so click and drag.…And notice now what's happened.…The click point--I'll go ahead and point back at it there--that's the anchor point, and as…