Illustrator CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide

21. Pen Tools

In This Chapter

Drawing with the Pen tool

Converting anchor points on paths

Exercise: Draw a knife with the Pen tool

Mastering the Pen tool—Illustrator’s most difficult tool—takes patience and practice. If you get accustomed to using it, refer to Chapter 12 to learn how to reshape the resulting paths. If you try using this tool but find it to be too difficult, 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 style with the Blob Brush or Pencil tool (Chapter 7).

Drawing with the Pen tool

The Pen tool creates ...