Meet the shape tools

In this movie I will give you a preview of the artwork that we will be creating over…the course of this chapter.…And I will also introduce you to each of the six shape tools included with Illustrator.…So what we are going to do is take that heart artwork from the previous chapter, and we…are going to surround it with the few ellipses, we will add a couple of rounded rectangle…ornaments here, we've got some stars at the top and the bottom.…And I have also drawn an arrow head in the background, going through the heart.…To get to the Shape tools, you go to the Rectangle tool, that's the default Shape tool anyway…inside of the toolbox.…

Click and hold on it, and you bring up a flyout menu of the six shape tools.…And then if you move your cursor over to this vertical bar and release, you will create…an independent panel of Shape tools.…Now they are not too difficult to use I have to say, and you'll see that there's a lot…of tips and tricks associated with each tool.…However, they can be extremely useful.…So we have got the Rectangle tool, which allow us to draw either rectangles that are wider…