Adobe Illustrator Tutorial for Beginners: How to Use the Pen Tool

In this step by step Adobe Illustrator Tutorial for Beginners, we will be going through a basic process on how to Use the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator. We will go through some different options if you are struggling with the Pen Tool. I do like teaching the Pen Tool in a 2-Step Process. It will feel like playing "connect the dots." When you are following along, notice where the anchors are being placed. We go through a complete workflow using pen tool, brushes, and color with the Paint Bucket.

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Your focus should be first just Placing Anchors.
Look for:
1. Start or End of Lines.
2. Corners
2. Curves or Changes in Direction (Peak)

Once the Anchors are down then we can worry about curves. You can use the Anchor Point Tool (Shift + C) turn manually drag them into position. Note that each segment applies to a Brush Stroke that will be used along with our Brushes.

PEN TOOL
We are going through some different options for the pen tool. The few things to remember is to focus on getting down the anchors first. We have a lot of our tutorials that focus just on straight lines and placing anchors. The easy parts of the line are the start and end points which means you just have to look for changes in direction in the middle. Click and drag your mouse in the direction you want to go (slowly).

TROUBLESHOOTING
There are easy ways of approaching the pen tool. Start with straight lines and only look for changes in direction. Using your white arrow(A) select the point that look like they are curved and click on the smooth curves button. If your pen tool keeps adding a new anchor rather than a new line then make sure the line isn’t still selected. You will notice a + as you hover over the line if it thinks you want to add an anchor. Anchor Tool(Shift C) will reset and manually drag out each curve.

LINE VARIATION
The line variation can be simplified by looking at the ends of each of your lines. If it is floating out in space then it signals a tapered end. If the end point bumps up against another line or shape, this is a good signal that it should be wide. Use the stroke weight to adjust the thickness in areas to support the character and light source.

Download Brushes
1. The Direct Download will make it very easy to download the zipped brushes file. Simply Extract All of the contents and follow along with the rest of the video.

Open Other Library
2. In your Brushes Panel, Window – Brushes. In the Bottom Left Hand Corner you will see a Brushes Library icon that looks like books. Click on it and scroll down to Other Library. Open Brush Library from folder.

Adding Line Weight
3. Depending on your own Style or preference, I would recommend adding a little more line weight to your artwork. The mistake I see a lot of beginners make is keeping the line weight at 1pt.

Cartoon Brushes
4. We have 17 Brush Libraries in our folder. You can use any one of them during this tutorial. All you have to do is line up the thin edge which will be floating in space. The Thick ends will represent our values which will be merging into other areas and strokes.
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