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The tool that can drawing anything

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The tool that can drawing 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 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, new term, control handles. These points and handles act like dots in a connect-the-dots 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-dots 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 the previous chapter, an anchor point locks down its neighboring segments.…

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