937 Tracing a photo with primitives in Illustrator

- [Instructor] All right, now at this point, … we are by no means finished working … on this fairly ambitious illustration of this cat's eye. … However, I wanted to take a moment … to follow through on a promise … in which I show you how to create the base eye path, … which you could draw using the Pen Tool, if you wanted to. … However, it's oftentimes more easy and more accurate … if you work from primitive path outlines instead. … And so I'll go ahead and turn off the eye layer here … inside the Layers panel and turn on the primitives layer. … And by primitive, I mean original path outlines. … And so notice these three guys right here are all ellipses … that are tracing along the edges of the cat's eye, … and then we have this one lone free-form path … that I will be drawing with the Pen Tool. … And so let me show you how it works. … I'll go up to the File menu and choose the New command. … And then if you're working along with me, … go ahead and switch to Art & Illustration, … which tends to be the most flexible of the various presets. …