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

Freeform drawing at its best - Illustrator Tutorial

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

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Freeform drawing at its best

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- From the dawn of personal computing, humankind has been looking for a tool that you can just draw with. You know, like when you take a 20 cent pencil and sketch something on a 1 cent piece of paper, except you want to do that with an obscenely complicated, zillion dollar computer application instead. This dream escaped us for, oh, 27 years, which is not a joke because for one thing, it's not funny. That just happens to be the exact length of time. But these days here in the wondrous 21st century it's a reality, and it's called the pencil tool. No, really. If you're used to the old days when the pencil tool was horrible, rest assured, now it's great. So okay, watch this. This is what it looks like when you draw with the pencil tool. It's a crooked little train wreck, right? Oh wow, I really messed up there. But then when I release the mouse button, no really, I'm drawing with a mouse here, it turns into this. Let's see that again. Here I am drawing, and this is after. Now I know on one hand, you're thinking, "Really? "I have to pay hundreds of dollars a year for a pencil?" But see, on the other hand, this is a pencil that knows what you meant to draw the moment you release. So, it's like a self-driving Tesla pencil. For heaven's sake, it's a smart pencil. only it's even smarter.

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