Illustrator CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 21. Pen Tools

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Drawing with the Pen tool	273
Converting anchor points on paths	277
Exercise: Draw a knife with the Pen tool	279

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Mastering the Pen tool—Illustrator’s most difficult tool—takes patience and practice. Once you become comfortable using it, refer to Chapter 12 to learn how to reshape the resulting paths. If you find the Pen tool to be too difficult to use, remember that you can create shapes using other methods. For example, you can draw simple geometric shapes (Chapter 6) and then combine them (Chapter 25), or draw in a freehand manner with the Blob Brush or Pencil tool (Chapter 7