Adobe Illustrator Drawing Tools, Part 1

Thnx man! This really helped me. Didn´t know most of those keyboard shortcuts. I’m looking forward to part 2.

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Hi James,

Glad you liked it. Stay tuned for part 2. It’s even better, especially the “wild & wacky” parts.

Jeff

Great tips, thanks alot! I have always been reluctant to draw things from scratch in illustrator, this video helped with some of the basics and made me more comfortable using the tools. Thanks again.

Thank you Sir, very helpful tut.

Thank you that really gave me a refresher.

Your tips are great! Can you give us a clue about the Spiral Tool? I want a tight spiral, and I can only get the open one.

Hi Gail,

Glad you like the tips!

Funny that you mentioned the Spiral tool. There are a bunch of Spiral tool tips coming in Part 2 of Illustrator Drawing Tool Tips.

You can also find an old tutorial that I wrote about Spirals at the following link http://www.layersmagazine.com/illustrator-spiral-tool.html

By the way, to draw a “tighter” Spiral, click with the Spiral tool and increase the Decay closer to 100%. At 100%, there is no Decay and the Spiral will look like a circle even though it’s not.

Happy spiraling!

Jeff

hey for some reason there’s no pop-up menu when I click the tools. How do I fix this?

Hi Tim,

If you click and hold on any tool with a small arrow to to its lower right, you should have a popup menu that will reveal other tools. If you do not, you could be having a problem with the Tools panel and you may want to post a question on the layers Forum.

http://www.layersmagazine.com/forum/

Easy to understand. I learned quite a bit. Thanks.

DRAWRING tools???

and you know know your name is simon…

Dear A-god,

Glad you enjoyed my accent so much.

Best,

Jeff

Thank you so much those short cuts are on the money

Because I am deaf and half blind I didn’t get as much as other people but thank you for the effort. Adobe looks exciting/