Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book® (2015 release)

6. Creating an Illustration with the Drawing Tools

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Understand paths and anchor points.

• Draw curved and straight lines with the Pen tool.

• Edit curved and straight lines.

• Add and delete anchor points.

• Draw with the Curvature tool.

• Delete and add anchor points.

• Convert between smooth points and corner points.

• Create dashed lines and add arrowheads.

• Draw and edit with the Pencil tool.

• Work with the Join tool.

This lesson takes approximately 90 minutes to complete.

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