Chapter 4: Drawing with the Pencil, Paintbrush, Pen, and Shape Tools

Now, we are going to look at the variety of drawing and painting tools offered in Illustrator. There are a lot of options and approaches to each tool, so although this won't be a comprehensive list of everything you can do with each, I hope you find something helpful to add to your own bag of tricks after reading this chapter.

After completing this chapter, you should have expert knowledge of paths, anchors, strokes, and fills. You should also have a lot of additional knowledge on the use of direction lines and direction points for editing an object's path.

To accomplish this, the chapter will be divided into the following main topics:

• Making the Pencil tool work for you
• Loading and creating brush profiles
• Advanced training on the Pen tool and anchor point editing
• Exploring simple shape tools and the Shaper tool to develop more advanced objects
• The Pathfinder panel for heavy...