 Everyone welcome back to another adobe illustrator tutorial. Yeah, my voice just cracked because I've got a bit of a cold But let's get into some teaching. Let's learn some stuff guys for those you that are new to illustrator This tutorial is for you if you're a seasoned pro. Well, I don't know you might learn something you might not But anyways, let's get right into this guys. We're gonna show you how to use the Freeform illa you basically freeform drawing or how to create your own freeform Shape so to speak so the way to do that is generally there's a few ways to do that But I'm going to show you how to do it using the pencil tool What you want to do is you want to go to your tools on the left side your toolbar You want to click on the paintbrush tool, which is this one, but then you want to drop it down to the pencil tool This is where we're going here now when you go to the pencil tool Just like that you bet this little pencil head here And you're going to see here on the right side in the properties panel that I have no fill and I have a stroke of Four pixels you will probably have a default stroke of one pixel But I'm just gonna up it to five pixels because it's easier to see but again you can select pixels whatever you want now The second thing I like to do is I'm going to double click on top of this pencil here So right here double left click and you're gonna see here that you get some pencil tool options in particular You get accurate and you get smooth now smooth is basically when you draw something freehand kind of thing and But you want it to smooth the path out So it's right like if you're if you're using a mouse for example, and you're drawing with a mouse it's very hard to get a great drawing with a mouse or or a trackpad as opposed to say a Tablet or a drawing tablet or something like that or an iPad Pro or whatever So I'm gonna go ahead and move it down to the fidelity down to accurate So it actually tracks exactly what my fingers does also you're gonna want to keep this keep selected tag Checkmark generally we'll talk about that a little later maybe but you want to make sure that check marks on and Off we go now. We're using the pencil tool and now if I wanted to draw Let's just say I wanted to draw a squiggle I would just draw like this Whatever it's really rough and ugly and bang. I've got a freehand Freeform drawing here. I'm gonna click on that and boom. You'll see this is what we got I'm gonna do another one here. Let's use the pencil tool and this time I'm gonna draw it like this. It's really ugly again. You'll see here that all these different points a Illustrator when we zoom in it's created all these different little reference points that actually you can go in and manipulate as well So just so you guys know if you wanted to make a change to it Let's say that point doesn't seem right. Boom. It's now changed But anyways, that's not really what we're doing in this lesson So the other thing I want to show you is you can go ahead and create Closed loops. So these are what are called open paths. So they they start here and it ends here, but they're not closed They don't close together, right? Let me show you an example of a closed one So I'm gonna go again back to the pencil tool. I'm gonna just draw some mush here Okay, great, but now when I hover the pencil tool over the The start of where we started here. Pardon me. You'll see here. It goes from an asterisks Star-looking thingy to a straight line. What that means is we're closing the loop So now I've started and when I start drawing It's now drawing from that original path or that original start and then as I get close to here You'll see this circle and that means it's closing the loop That's basically what a circle is and that's what we're doing So here we go We've got a closed loop and now when I click on this when I click on our Selection tool and I go to move it. You'll notice that it is one shape. We built it with multiple freeform Drawings, but we closed it together. So this is really the basics of the pencil tool how to do freeform drawings guys It gets a lot more complicated, but for those of you that knew the illustrator, this is how you get the ball rolling I hope you liked this tutorial. I have a ton more stuff coming up. Thanks for watching