Lowdtown Quick Tips: Mastering the Pen Tool Illustration Process

Following the positive response I've gotten from my Mushyhead video, I decided to throw up another unscripted, ghetto tutorial on my pen tool illustration process. Hopefully it's helpful to some people. Let me know if you have any questions or need help with some shit.

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Music:
Various beats by Hannibal King

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• quick tip
• tutorial
• help
• justlowd
• lowdtown
• graphic
• design
• ray masaki
• pressure
• tablet
• wacom
• illustrator
• cs4
• process
• pen tool
• path finder
• anchor points
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• hannibal king

[jwkitson88]

i feel like an ultra noob now. ive had no idea about the alt key. i would always use the pen tool as best as i could then i would use the smoothing tool on the line. THANKS lowdtown, awesome tutorial!

[lowdtown]

@jwkitson88 no problem, my pleasure! the alt key is a lifesaver for sure.

[officialWOWSERS]

Can u make anvideo on how to add colors like u did to the pink brain design....plz

[lowdtown]

@officialWOWSERS yeah, I'll do that when I get my next design going. 

[austinSUCKAA]

whats your ctrl+E shortcut.please help

[GMTecano]

sick sick sick sick this video is sick... I love you men

[CreepingDeathaAH]

@lowdtown is there a way to get rid of that white that goes over what your using the pen tool on? if that make sense

[CreepingDeathaAH]

sick videos, i hope theres more soon.

[TheKurrent1]

:O alt key! does the alt key thing work in photoshop?

[jackal88k]

watts braking homie make more tutorials! how to do sh@! PLZ 

[sesshymaru]

Please make more tutorials! :)

[sesshymaru]

Thanks for the tutorial!!

[lucky7carla]

Amazing video. Incredibly helpful, really good for a noob to illustrator like me! Keep making these dude.