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The tool that can draw anything

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The tool that can draw anything

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- The topic of this chapter is Illustrator's flagship drawing tool, the pen tool. In case you've never heard of it, the pen tool is that one tool that lets you draw anything you want with absolute precision in Illustrator's native language so that when you describe a path outline with a pen tool, Illustrator knows exactly what you're talking about. The pen tool creates a path as a series of anchor points, and here's a new term, control handles. These points and handles act like dots in a connect-the-dot puzzle, only each dot gives instructions to Illustrator on how to precisely create the straight and curving segments in between. After all, this is not a child's connect-the-dot puzzle. This is one for fully-grown adults or very talented children. Thing is, these dots, the anchor points and the control handles, they serve very different purposes. As we saw in a previous chapter, an anchor point locks down its neighboring segments. One segment travels into the anchor point. Another…

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