Mastering the Pen tool

- In earlier movies, you've learnt more…about the construction of shapes in Illustrator…and seen how they're made of anchor points…joined together with line segments…and that there are a bunch of tools and functions…in Illustrator that help you to draw amazing things…just using those simple shapes.…But at some point, you're going to need…to get to grips with the pen tool…and that's the focus of this movie.…So to do this, we're going to establish a grid,…you don't need one to use the pen tool,…but in the learning stages it's very useful.…

So we'll establish a grid and then we'll draw to that grid.…So we'll need to modify it so we've all got the same thing.…Now I've got an Art and Illustration…1920 by 1080 document, but if you're using a letter document…or an A4 document, whatever, that is just fine.…I also happen to have my units set to inches.…You can do that, of course, from the drop down…here in the properties panel if you choose to do so,…or any unit of measurement that you're happy with.…

Then we're going to set the preferences,…