Adobe Illustrator Tutorial! ::The Pen Tool::

[ChiProd23]

Good tutorial. Thanks

[phonesplanet]

great. keep posting new tutorial.

[Mr84610]

Thanks! You may have just altered my intro to digital arts grade from a D to an A :D

[serooter]

is it just me or is he talking too much? :\

[zenya123]

@serooter it's his job.

[hypnotizeme888]

@serooter Agreed. First 3 mins is 50 different explanations on what the pen tool is. Good tutorial otherwise

[r1mario]

Great tutorial!  Thank you.

[pokemonmegaman]

Thanks for the tut! Now I can FINALLY start inking my sketches...

[vehbr]

Awesome, thanks.

[daSenfgurke]

yeah, really cool and all, but how can i align points in the path?? I'm struggeling so hard right now, guidelines don't work, snap doesn't work, idk what to do.... sigh. -.-

[regilord]

A video about vectoring that actually made sense to me... thanks

[adamlewismusic13]

this was great, i really understood everything.

[MrDSM5150]

Great tutorial video. I like how you explain things in great detail. People can better understand what your trying to explain. Well, i'm speaking for myself at least. Your a good teacher.

[Tekemas]

Thanks a lot for the "Pen Tool for Dummies" tutorial :) ...It was a huge help for me as I am a new beginner of Illustrator.

[FedericoJimbo]

Very good tutorial Sir. It will for a while for me to master this software.

[kpo784]

This guy knows he's smart and talks way too much and goes into unnecessary detail. Explaining every little detail isn't always the best way to teach, you will just confuse those without any prior knowledge. What you did in 27 mins, a good teacher could do in just a few simple steps in 5 mins or less. your voice got irritating after 10 mins.

[aspacelot]

@kpo784 I disagree. You're correct: another teacher might be able to teach what he did in less time, but some people like knowing the why along with the how- this is why this tutorial is valuable. I think he did a great job and was very helpful.

[AlohaSiempre]

@aspacelot agreed I accept information a lot better and faster knowing the 'why' behind it.. not to mention he goes into the 'and if you maybe want to .....' I love that.

[lolvely1]

@aspacelot I couldn't of said it better myself. I have a teacher who's teaching us how to use adobe illustrator cs5, and It's hard to follow along. I only know to press this button or another, but this is exactly what I need to know! I feel like my own teacher just kinda vaguely went over this, and then threw us out there to fend for ourselves. This is what I'd call "real" teaching, there's an explanation & he took his time doing it. Thanks I seriously appreciate this!

[Fearstrikess]

@kpo784

Thank you. This guy did way too much talking.

[StefanVinkSelis]

Thanks a lot :)

[xxxesantxxx]

Thank you so much!

[Gamesage47]

Good job with this.

[jo5kra]

amazing video. awesome teaching. there is no way to do it better!

[iseebreen]

Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's Arrested Development.

[osmanzerna]

u r goody teacher...

[DirtyNesty]

you fuckin talk a lot. verbal diarrhea.

[tomichasquad]

Much appreciated tutorial :) I play around with CG for years now, but the Pen tool always confused me. Now in this tutorial is like fool-proof, and even though I'm not stupid and kinda know my way around Photoshop and stuff, that's exactly what I needed :) Also you have a very nice voice and way of speaking, I understood every word there without subtitles ^^ Thanks a lot, subscribing!

[gfxvision]

Very Good thank you very much!

[19gerike87]

Thank you mate, I learned much from your video! : )

[alexoxfordartist]

Not sure, think the gut understands illustrator himself, but does not make it clear to first time users. It reminds me at school when computer whiz kids would explain something which made a simple task much more complicated then it needed to be.

As a teacher I suggest our friend train in a teaching course, and I could teach him, and make it as confusing as possible for him.

[freefllow]

Thanks for sharing helped me out allot cheers :)

[Dohlenstudios]

Thank you. I am mostly a freehand artist and I am tired of trying to draw clean line objects like vehicles in Corel Painter. Learning the pen tool now to get cool illustrator vector lines and now I can mess with the line width in CS5 which gives the lines a much more hand drawn look.

[BowHunterSDK]

Thanks Dude, that was perfect!

[tediju]

great man, that was a step by step walk through !

[gibernaujk]

Maybe is just me, but I didn't find this tutorial useful at all. Pen Tool is still so unclear for me.

[kidfuzzion]

Can't thank you enough. You demistified the pen tool! Nice work

[vivdelac]

This is just what I am looking for. THANK YOU! I thought I will NEVER figure out the pen tool you are my life saver! Thanks again!!!

[weedave]

Most dull and bland voice ever, that was torture.

[donaldrack]

@HIIAMJULIUS I can't unhear it!

[jenitreehugger]

129 people are jealous of your skillz!

Great tutorial, thank you :)

[dandadrummerman]

@9:28 MOOOOOOOVE!

[YvaijiroY]

Thanks, gread explanations!

[55nublet]

omg i wanted to shoot myself you talk wayyyy to much zomg!!

[dead7end]

thanks DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[amosfenrisbane]

So helpful. LIke crazy helpful. Thank you so much.

[favoritesmoothies]

wow I wish you were my actual teacher in class! you're the best explainer!! thanks for this video.

[XoDusEditing]

who wold watch a 30 minue tutorial

[LW4JD]

@XoDusEditing someone who probably wants learn perhaps, !!! :-)

[MrStix21]

thanks bro



[giodoli93]

Thanks, very informative!

[marborsmnj]

thanks a lot!

[GotenMaxwell]

The pen tool in flash can't add anchor points.

[LW4JD]

@GotenMaxwell it does m8, look at the pen tool selection menu, :-)

[capiogwapo]

THHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAANKKK YOOOOUUUUUUUU!!!

[ithakuah]

awesome tutorial!

[yksnimus]

whats the difference between adobe illustrator and flash? Considering drawing and painting abilities only..Its the same purpose isnt it?

[rockerpunkdude]

@yksnimus i cannot believe you just asked that =_=

[yksnimus]

@rockerpunkdude i cannot believe you reply me saying notting

[rockerpunkdude]

@yksnimus fine.. it is not the same... illustrator is more of a vector image creator.. and flash is more into making animations and stuff.. got it? :P

[yksnimus]

@rockerpunkdude read the damn post I did before shoting the first thing comes at ur mind

[rockerpunkdude]

@yksnimus well it is not -_-.. flash has less tools to draw than illustrator >_>.. ya happy??

[imalwayswatchingu00]

Pen tool is the worst tool IMO, but I only use paintbrush and I'm new to AI.

[doebino1]

@imalwayswatchingu00 Good luck with the paintbrush. Lmao

[imalwayswatchingu00]

@doebino1 It's great for the cartoons I draw, exactly what I needed.

If only I could colour in with the paintbucket without changing the lines into CRAP.

So I colour in with the paintbrush too. :|

Why's the paintbrush not so good, in your opinion?

[doebino1]

@imalwayswatchingu00 I was just laughing because you said pen tool is the worst. It's the best tool there is. If you want to color, why not try Photoshop instead?

[imalwayswatchingu00]

@doebino1 It's only the best if you know how to use it!! D:

But that's a heaps good idea, using photoshop to colour in.

I'm going to have to do that!

ta

[doebino1]

@imalwayswatchingu00 Yeah, illustrator is used more for design and vectors really. Photoshop is where it's at for sketching and coloring. Get a Wacom tablet if you don't have one already.

[AdryBest10]

kool



[pataverde89]

thanks! this really helped :)

[jonolemon]

Merci



[AdamDalyOnline]

Thanks for this!

[joshanator1]

How do I get rid of the fill color. Every time I try to shape anything it get's whited out

by the fill color.

[g3tabr4]

@joshanator1 window>color, click on the top left square in the color palette, click on the little white box with a red diagonal line through it (to the left of the color strip)

[MrTheTibian]

Sony Vegas Pro 10 for FREE? Check my channel!

[eSuperboi]

Thank you!

[leoyt123]

You sound like Bucky, lol

[klepto2]

thanks man..that last part took some practice but figured it out...

[BlackAsianBeauty]

@HIIAMJULIUS He reminded me more of a smarter, saner Charlie Sheen.

[geebaker1927]

@BlackAsianBeauty After reading your comment I couldn't take the video seriously

[dobre0nony]

the direct selection tool or direction selection tool !

[thatcoolperson1]

owen wilson?

[technologyisuseful]

Very helpful, thanks.

[iammaddalena]

can i use it in photoshop?

is it the same?

[kenkoiiProductions]

the Grand daddy of all tools!

[aarb17]

Thanks!

[Estrangler]

Wow, the pen tool isn't a useless, unintuitive piece of trash after all. Glad I saw this.

Still, I feel that an individual should be able to bend a line simply by clicking on it & dragging, like in Flash.

Regardless, this is an awesome tutorial and I'm a better illustrator end-user for having seen it. I hope you have an entire arsenal of these videos available because I'm about to dig in.

[4shebby]

thanks for taking out the time and making this tutorial. helped me so much than u can imagine. thanks again !!!

[HBSchool]

Thank you for taking the time to do this tut...

[lvlselect]

Just started using Ai from being a long term photoshop user. The UI had me completely lost. When I saw your first vid, i decided to watch every basic tutorial and now I navigate Ai with ease!

The tutorials arent what taught me. It was the way you explained every key command in detail and how comfortable you made everything look. I just followed your style and now im good!

[TheEpicNewb]

Thanks mate!

[TheSummerwine1]

sounds like you're saying pan tool

[M3ANMACHINE1]

how did i end up here? :S

[Artybruh]

THIS IS SOOO HELPFUL 

[BlazingLizardman]

For some reason, after using the direct selection tool, my tangent handles don't pop up... Was trying to find out why, but with no luck

[ThePeoplesMagikarp]

You sound like the narrator from Arrested Development.

[MrHumanforlife]

but can it blend

[robson54321]

excellent tutorial. thanks for sharing :)

[aryafin]

i am sorry to say but , u talk tooooo much . even though its useful

[MD3Designs]

check my page for some of my work! tutorials coming soon! (speed arts also)

[trendyscrapper]

I am a designer and teach classes. I would like to say thank you lately I have watched tutorials or had a class and the instructors are terrible teachers. i find it very refreshing when someone can clearly and precisely explain a subject.

[kammies808]

Great video thanks alot!!

[adnank21]

ooh look at those 120 assholes

[gibolas]

Thank you for this. As someone with almost no experience, your thoroughness was appreciated.

[chloejb95]

I’m sorry, but you talked way too much on things that didn't really matter, and because of that I just bored at 6 minutes and left because in six minutes you hadn't taught me anything that I really needed to use the pen tool.

I’m sorry I don’t mean to be harsh but you need to learn to get straight to the point, your intro went for like 4 minnutes.

[elamrianna]

nice tuto

[ragaai]

you are very very talkative and i hate this tutorial due to your so much non necessary speech

you are headache!!

[anhsixia84]

thanksssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssss

[joleerae]

had a graphic design course and my instructor never explained the importance of the alt key.  thank you!

[thatguyplayinguitar]

thank you so much!!!

[MsWowwie]

Thanks dude.  Helped alot!!

[TheMetalViking666]

Only thing missing is you getting a better recording device so that your videos won't lag! That would be great

[MissTeleri]

You are Mr. Wonderful! Here I am in a new job and need to spin up FAst on this software, your vids are better than some instructors I've had. Thanks!

[LaPersonaNonGrata]

@MissTeleri do you have a job as a graphic designer? thanks

[132hooligan]

TÅngent Ångel

[SeekoGT]

Very goood! Very good! Bravo! I learned a lot from following your direction.

[QuidHD]

You're an absolute genious.

[mmitchell73]

Great tutorial! :)

[roejames12]

Awesome, thanks for the tutorial! It was a real help! :)

[roejames12]

The clock was genius. Tested it out and it holds so true.. Awesome!

[vdsleo]

I always had huge trouble understanding the pen tool because i did not need it much in photoshop, now moving in to Ai, its crucial.

you made this very clear and easy to understand, thank you so much! great video.. it is very hard to udnerstand yet you nailed it.

[GheeTTo1]

Adobe Illustrator® CS5

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[snyder462]

i learned ALOT from this thanks man :)

[MoviesAndTuts]

what about...photoshop? whats the diff

[Pyrok1netic]

@MoviesAndTuts pretty much the same thing but in photoshop controls are slightly different (for example in ps to move an anchor point, you can control+click with the pen tool rather than having to change to the direct selection tool)

[ITWorksSoftware]

Thank you.. you're AWESOME!!

[ZBIDLj]

thank you duuude ! gonna subscribe!

[TPTE5]

Cheers dude!

[drusillacrowley]

brilliant, quick and clear,  thanks!

[ShibariSmurf]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you !

[DriePie09]

smooth ^^

[Atheeizm]

Good work sir.

[EyeOnJaiJai]

thank u for this hi quality n useful work

[XBXClan]

Brilliant Tututorial ! Still no good :D

[Giannis9108Der]

iv got a problem with illustrator i cant save my file as jpg

plz help :)

[jjpp1993]

@Giannis9108Der I was watching this video and read your comment and I realized that I couldn't too. But as well as in photoshop, Ilustrator has an export option under the file menu, there you can export your work as a jpeg =)

[stephenjeaton]

This video is so helpful. Thank you so much!

[orangewall90]

you're awesome thank you!!!!

[blkjegg]

You are great, thanks for taking time to teach 

[A07392115]

YOU ARE FANTASTIC !!!

[fetallica1]

thaaaaaaanxxxxxx so much :)

[Janinedugroin]

 cnn com

[s22film]

You are an awesome teacher! Thank you so much!

[zaziguad]

So, does the pen tool in photoshop work in exactly the same way?

[Wargrin]

@zaziguad Not exactly the same. The pen tool in Photoshop is better IMO because it lets you edit anchor points while drawing with the pen tool, you don't have to reselect and then redrag the handle on your last anchor point.

[VictoEd]

Very nice job!

[Olaf177]

if i have something like you had in the very ending, so that i have a path around the whole object, how can i copy or save that path, so that i can put it into cinema 4d?...its possible because i saw a video but i dont know how that works, would be pretty helpful...and nice video, really helpful and much information in it

[PremiumCodDesigns]

@Olaf177 yes you can, export it as a PNG, because PNG supports transparency

[Olaf177]

@PremiumCodDesigns so i have to make that path around it, and then delete everything else?...or i only must save the path as a png object right?...could you maybe make a quick tutorial on that, so that i get it clearly...i have to do something for school, and it should be quite good since i get a mark on it

[PremiumCodDesigns]

@Olaf177 well, let me get what you are trying to do first. You want to trace a object with the pen tool, than import that trace to C4D ? So you only want to trace right ?

[TheOnlyV8]

Great Tutorial!  Thank you!

[BambigetHIGHER]

Those were really helpfull minutes! Thank you so much!

[fjschneider]

Wow. Well done! Good job relating to new users and explaining things well. This really helped!

[brostomper]

I have that guitar

[AlinaKei]

I was trying to learn from a book and that just did not work for me. Haha... But this is soo helpful! Best tutorial I've found so far. -3

[viezure10]

i can confirm, best tutorial for pen tool out there, the guy actually knows what he's saying :)

[NinjaCrepes]

Tutvid--This is the second time I've followed along to your tutorial and I have to say again that this is the best tut on the pen tool out there. I picked up additional things that I thought I'd gotten the first time but really didn't. Thanks for such a friggin fantastic instructional video. I actually do think I get the pen tool and and those damn tangent handles!

[nokiamcf]

adobe illustrator = PHOTOSOP?????

[vivamexico89]

@nokiamcf

No,

 illustrator is for vector images.

Photoshop is for raster Images.

[sbellastoria]

yeah this video is good, because I had no clue as to how to use the pen tool.. I'm still having issues in adjusting them, but like you said, practice practice practice

[tygressjanie]

Wow. So I thought you were being patronizing, until not 5 seconds later you said I probably don't understand what you're saying. You cleared that RIGHT up for me. You weren't being patronizing, you were being CONDESCENDING. What a jerk.

[CoolIizard]

@tygressjanie Hmm... I don't know. Personally, I actually didn't understand all that much before it was explained. If you don't want someone to explain the pen tool to you, chances are this tutorial wasn't meant for you.

[tygressjanie]

@CoolIizard My point has nothing to do with learning from the video, but simply that he is speaking down to the viewer.  In addition to his tone of voice, he says things like "you probably don't understand..." thus implying the viewer has lower intelligence than he does. Some of his own comments state his goal is to sum up a college class. If that's his intention he should have the respect to speak at that level of implied understanding, rather than as if speaking to a 1st grade class.

[CoolIizard]

@tygressjanie There's a difference between saying someone probably don't understand something you haven't learned about and talking down to someone. At the beginning of the video, he said that he would be explaining the tool assuming the viewer knew nothing about it. Implying understanding that the viewer doesn't necessarily have is in no way more polite than assuming the viewer is coming to you to learn and starting at the beginning.