From the course: Illustrator: Designing with Grids and Guides

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Work with a perspective grid

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Work with a perspective grid

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- [Instructor] Illustrator's perspective grid allows us to create artwork in one point, two point or three point perspective. It's beyond the scope of this course to go too deep into the perspective grid, but I just want to give you an overview of the kind of things that are possible. To start with, I want to turn on the perspective grid and I do that by clicking on the perspective grid tool. The first point I want to make is how do we dismiss this grid if we clicked on this by mistake, because it can confuse quite a few people. Well, to hide the grid, we need to come to the View menu, to Perspective Grid and choose Hide Grid, and we can use that keyboard shortcut to show it again, Command + Shift + I or Control + Shift + I. If the grid is hidden, clicking back on the perspective grid tool, if you are already in that tool, doesn't show it, but if you choose another tool and then click back on the perspective grid tool, the grid is back. So with my default two point perspective, I have…

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