That's so great to hear Clifford! Exactly what we wanted to achieve with this video. The Pen Tool really is great once you get to grips with it and these techniques have worked wonders for us over the years so I hope they can do the same for you 😁
Thank you for this technique. I've never seen it on other tutorials and this absolutely works for me. I get much more control over the lines and curvatures. Great job!!!
I know a couple of people mentioned this already, but I've watched diverse tutorials on Pen tool, your technique is undoubtedly the best I've seen yet. Thanks man! 💯
Can't thank enough for this video! I watched several other videos before, took a class, and nothing made me comfortable with drawing in illustrator until I watched this video. You saved me and my future career as a designer!
I agree with the others that this is one of the best Pen Tool tutorials I've seen - thank you. As with all of your videos, lots of useful, clear advice, and I love the straightforward, no-nonsense approach! Thanks again.
I declare you a Legend! I've been trying to master the pen tool for a while now. This video has been a Godsend after only watching 17 mins! Thank you so much for really breaking down the actual way to properly use this tool. I haven't come across a video as precise and well-versed as yours. Every other video I've watched has just glossed over the pen tool. Now I will get back to watching the rest of the video for even more eye-opening things to learn about the pen tool. Thank you again!
Thanks for the 90° technique, very helpful. I have an old version of Illustrator (Adobe 5.5 from back before you needed a subscription) and it does not have the same Anchor Point Tool, only add, subtract, and convert anchor point.
Well i am impressed. I have been using photoshop and have become accustomed to their tools. I always wondered why my short cuts never worked. Thank you. I will be back
Thank you so much! Best explantion ever. I couldn´t find the free tamplate file among other files in the provided link. Would you pls help me? Thank you in advance! 🙏
Hi there, thanks for all tips and seminars. But still I have one question, how come the little circle doesn't appear in a corner beside anchor point to make streight corner to smoothe one. Even if I zoom in a lot...? Thanks in advance.
Thank you for taking your time to explain everything in detail. Got a question. Is it possible to continue a path with two handles? When I try to do that, I always get one handle.
The Best Explanation !!! I referred to many videos , but out of all tNice tutorials was the best I could find among all .... Also got to know many tNice tutorialngs
Great video :) And as said by many before in the comments below, this must be the best and most intuitive tutorial in teaching the Pen Tool for tracing jobs - and similar creations (and yes, I've struggled some in the past). One reason for that is of cause that this tutorial is about Illustrator CC. Illustrator CS isn't as intuitive as CC, actually specially the Pen Tool in CS can be a bit frustrating compared with CC. But, there are ways to handle the first technic mentioned here even in CS, a bit less intuitive, a bit more time consuming compared with CC, but still doable. However, for those of you hooping CS will handle the second technic as well, the one using straight anchor points without worrying about handles, are going to be disappointed. If your try to affect the PATH between two anchor points with this technic (anchor points with no handles) you will immediately fail and get a message box from Illustrator CS saying: "Please use the convert anchor point tool on an anchor point of a path" (i.e. don't try to work with the path itself). This is a bit sad for CS-users since this second technic really, IMHO, is the one to go with first, mostly for its intuitive simplicity and speed. The emphasis, in the beginning of the video, that always make use of some sort of reference image, even lousy ones (better than none), when using the Pen Tool - and that the Pen Tool it self, almost always is to prefer over quick solutions/tools (like Image Trace - especially when using low resolution images) in the art of creating various shapes of high quality, is something that I often have been missing in other tutorials on the Pen Tool, or tools that are meant to be used as a substitute to it - and the best thing about it all is that this tutorial, in a sharp and straight forward way, from the very start to finish, shows how it (the Pen Tool) could be used to achieve just that clean shape with a minimum of anchor points you always aiming for, and that it doesn't have to be so very much more time consuming over trying the easy way out (especially in CC, and in the end the correct way of cause always is superior to short cuts for those wanting some kind of professional end result). Worth every minute! Great job! The download template service doesn't work though. After filling in the name and email the download process get stuck and doesn't come further than "Submitting..." (it goes on for hours without anything happening [and no, there is no mail from GD Pro in the spam mail basket], and that goes for all other templates I've tried to download from GD Pro the last days, too). Hopefully you (GD Pro) will find a way to sort it out - even if there are work-arounds (other pictures/templates to be used) it's always a lot nicer to share the same examples as the one in the tutorial.
Agreed. You are being very diplomatic. Re the template: Making good on the gifting is key to selling product. ;) That being said you can find the Be Brilliant Neon (Be Brilliant neon script wall sign image/ google) and a type image as well as a heron and the hummingbird by google search. Pain in the booty to make your own template blah. I am excited to go through the tutorial, sounds like it will be worth the time to get prepared.
@@ADayInAGirlsHead Downloading the templates , 7 month later, works another way now. When hitting the download button you’ll get a mail with a link and using that you’ll get a folder with templates to your Google Drive (if you have one). So far it works fine. The only thing is that none of the templates used in this video are included in the folder… Looks like GD still has some job left to do to make us completely happy 😊… Using Google search for specific templates /pictures used in a video has its limits. Some are easy to find. Others not. If you want the very specific picture, that is. In this video the “Be Brilliant” and “Oh la la” was easy. The heron and the hummingbird a bit more difficult (time-consuming). The specific “Ok” could also be a bit troublesome (if you’re not an expert in fonts - if a known such one was used in the example). Hope you enjoyed the video anyway!
This has to the best tutorial on AI Pen Tool. I can see that just by tracing the outlined text mastery is achievable. Thanks so much!
That's so great to hear Clifford! Exactly what we wanted to achieve with this video. The Pen Tool really is great once you get to grips with it and these techniques have worked wonders for us over the years so I hope they can do the same for you 😁
Agree. Great learning video. Amazing techniques. Thank you.
Exactly what I needed! Thank you! I will rewatch this video many times, until I get these tools learned. You are terrific!!!
Thank you so much man, this is the best explanation I've heard. Hope you and your channel have lots of success!
Very good tutorial! You explain it so well and with such inspiring designs. Thank you!
Thank you! i like the way you go into every details about each technique !
Appreciate this video which has so much clarity. Your intent to teach is duly noted! :)
Thank you for this technique. I've never seen it on other tutorials and this absolutely works for me. I get much more control over the lines and curvatures. Great job!!!
The best pentool tutorial for me to follow. Thank you!
Love this video. Great explanation for beginners
Thank you so much, very clear instructions
Pro techniques I've ever seen. Much helpful, Thanks you!
This is the most well-explained tutorial I've ever watched. You make it so simple and made the daunting pen tool so easy to use!
fantastic tutorial💫 i really enjoyed watching it and i learned a lot. you are great
This is one of the best Pen Tool tutorials I've seen ... Best ..cheers !!
Thank you so much as this In-Depth Tutorial was brilliant and easy to follow.
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been using illustrator forever, and your pen tool video is the best ever!!!
Straightforward and intelligently presented. Thank you.
Very informative, I greatly appreciate you Bro!
thank u very much for explaining &sharing
I know a couple of people mentioned this already, but I've watched diverse tutorials on Pen tool, your technique is undoubtedly the best I've seen yet. Thanks man! 💯
Very helpful n informative. Thank you for sharing
Best tutorial on Pen tool. Thank you so much.
A very clear explanation. Perfect.
The best video ever for learning pen too. Thank you.
Great video and explanation of the pen tool
Great Tutorial to work with P and Shift+C, I tried to make an image of Tome Cruise using this and it was a great help
Just learnt so much from this. Thank you! :)
The very best Pen Tool tutorial. Thank you!
LOVED the tip for maximizing the anchor display! 🤯
This was so good. Thank you.
Daaaamn! Really the Best tutorial ever seen! (And believe me, I've been around for some years in this stuff).
Congratulations!
The program works great, thanks, post more videos like this
Really helpfull tutorials. Helped a lot
For was born a teacher, thanks God bless you
Very informative thank you very much.
Very helpful! Thanks
Can't thank enough for this video! I watched several other videos before, took a class, and nothing made me comfortable with drawing in illustrator until I watched this video. You saved me and my future career as a designer!
Can't thank you enough man
Wish you all happiness & good health to you and to your family
Top tutorial. Thanks so much.
Thank you! Love you!!
I increase my knowledge about Illustrator, thank you so much, I appreciated helping us. Therefore, I decided to subscribe to this channel!
Hey. Seriously. Thank you. I just downloaded soft and I can CLEARLY see why your vid was recomnded. You're an aweso intro into
I didn't know this video existed! Thanks bro! Really grateful.
Great tutorial! Thank you!
thank you so much for this! :D
This was very good, thanks.
I agree with the others that this is one of the best Pen Tool tutorials I've seen - thank you. As with all of your videos, lots of useful, clear advice, and I love the straightforward, no-nonsense approach! Thanks again.
Thank you so much Harlequin! That's so nice to hear and really glad you found this useful 😁
thanks for helping you are the all time sir
Thanks for sharing.
Most definitely the best AI Pen Tool tutorial I have seen so far. Rory explains it brilliantly.
Wow, thank you so much Damien! That really means a lot and we're delighted you found the video useful 😁
Best tutorial of illustrator Pen Tool.
Thanks for this useful video
This is the great tutorial for me thanku brother
I am really glad that I found this video. Now, I am subscribed and I am going through everything that I haven't missed?
far from mastering yet, but this helped tons. thank you!
Thank you for this
I declare you a Legend! I've been trying to master the pen tool for a while now. This video has been a Godsend after only watching 17 mins! Thank you so much for really breaking down the actual way to properly use this tool. I haven't come across a video as precise and well-versed as yours. Every other video I've watched has just glossed over the pen tool. Now I will get back to watching the rest of the video for even more eye-opening things to learn about the pen tool. Thank you again!
Thanks a lot!!
brilliant thanks 👍
Thanks for the 90° technique, very helpful.
I have an old version of Illustrator (Adobe 5.5 from back before you needed a subscription) and it does not have the same Anchor Point Tool, only add, subtract, and convert anchor point.
thanks for your video
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Awesome instructor
Maaaaan! Thank you so much!
very usefull video!
Thanks Brother
I love your tutorials
great thank you
Good teacher.
Thnaks
I always struggled a bit with the AI Pen Tool because I didn't fully understand how it works, but this video helped me a lot. Great video
Amazing Tutorial thank you so much Rory ❤
No problem, really glad you enjoyed it! 😁
@@GraphicDesignerPRO Damn i love this guy.
Thanks this video is very helpful Thanks again
Glad it was helpful! 🔥
Well i am impressed. I have been using photoshop and have become accustomed to their tools. I always wondered why my short cuts never worked. Thank you. I will be back
Amazing crack, and the tutorial was perfect. I´m testing it right now
Good work
I am from Bangladesh. Honestly speaking, you teach me the best way to use pen tool practically. Now really I am highly confident and use pen tool.
you are so helfull man god bless you love from india
Nice tutorial
Thank you so much! Best explantion ever.
I couldn´t find the free tamplate file among other files in the provided link. Would you pls help me? Thank you in advance! 🙏
Thanks fam!!
good work
you have no idea how helpful was this video thanks bro
Really glad it helped! Thanks for the feedback 😁
Thank alot for knowlege
Hi there, thanks for all tips and seminars. But still I have one question, how come the little circle doesn't appear in a corner beside anchor point to make streight corner to smoothe one. Even if I zoom in a lot...? Thanks in advance.
Thank you for taking your time to explain everything in detail. Got a question. Is it possible to continue a path with two handles? When I try to do that, I always get one handle.
Nicely timed thumbs up, almost forgot to like 👍
Thank you for creating tNice tutorials playlist in soft soft, just starting out in soft production and there is so much to learn
Great work! you've made a subscriber out of me.
Great video! now... the GMS soft really distorted in my mac, I searched a couple of tutorials to change in nu Options content settings,
Thanks dear teacher...
Love from Pakistan 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks u so much God
it a go!
The Best Explanation !!! I referred to many videos , but out of all tNice tutorials was the best I could find among all .... Also got to know many tNice tutorialngs
Like bro!)
Great video :)
And as said by many before in the comments below, this must be the best and most intuitive tutorial in teaching the Pen Tool for tracing jobs - and similar creations (and yes, I've struggled some in the past).
One reason for that is of cause that this tutorial is about Illustrator CC. Illustrator CS isn't as intuitive as CC, actually specially the Pen Tool in CS can be a bit frustrating compared with CC. But, there are ways to handle the first technic mentioned here even in CS, a bit less intuitive, a bit more time consuming compared with CC, but still doable.
However, for those of you hooping CS will handle the second technic as well, the one using straight anchor points without worrying about handles, are going to be disappointed. If your try to affect the PATH between two anchor points with this technic (anchor points with no handles) you will immediately fail and get a message box from Illustrator CS saying: "Please use the convert anchor point tool on an anchor point of a path" (i.e. don't try to work with the path itself). This is a bit sad for CS-users since this second technic really, IMHO, is the one to go with first, mostly for its intuitive simplicity and speed.
The emphasis, in the beginning of the video, that always make use of some sort of reference image, even lousy ones (better than none), when using the Pen Tool - and that the Pen Tool it self, almost always is to prefer over quick solutions/tools (like Image Trace - especially when using low resolution images) in the art of creating various shapes of high quality, is something that I often have been missing in other tutorials on the Pen Tool, or tools that are meant to be used as a substitute to it - and the best thing about it all is that this tutorial, in a sharp and straight forward way, from the very start to finish, shows how it (the Pen Tool) could be used to achieve just that clean shape with a minimum of anchor points you always aiming for, and that it doesn't have to be so very much more time consuming over trying the easy way out (especially in CC, and in the end the correct way of cause always is superior to short cuts for those wanting some kind of professional end result). Worth every minute! Great job!
The download template service doesn't work though. After filling in the name and email the download process get stuck and doesn't come further than "Submitting..." (it goes on for hours without anything happening [and no, there is no mail from GD Pro in the spam mail basket], and that goes for all other templates I've tried to download from GD Pro the last days, too).
Hopefully you (GD Pro) will find a way to sort it out - even if there are work-arounds (other pictures/templates to be used) it's always a lot nicer to share the same examples as the one in the tutorial.
Agreed. You are being very diplomatic. Re the template: Making good on the gifting is key to selling product. ;) That being said you can find the Be Brilliant Neon (Be Brilliant neon script wall sign image/ google) and a type image as well as a heron and the hummingbird by google search. Pain in the booty to make your own template blah. I am excited to go through the tutorial, sounds like it will be worth the time to get prepared.
@@ADayInAGirlsHead Downloading the templates , 7 month later, works another way now. When hitting the download button you’ll get a mail with a link and using that you’ll get a folder with templates to your Google Drive (if you have one). So far it works fine. The only thing is that none of the templates used in this video are included in the folder… Looks like GD still has some job left to do to make us completely happy 😊…
Using Google search for specific templates /pictures used in a video has its limits. Some are easy to find. Others not. If you want the very specific picture, that is. In this video the “Be Brilliant” and “Oh la la” was easy. The heron and the hummingbird a bit more difficult (time-consuming). The specific “Ok” could also be a bit troublesome (if you’re not an expert in fonts - if a known such one was used in the example).
Hope you enjoyed the video anyway!
this is very good tutorial and plus, I like ur accent
A master of pen tool
Nice video, can you do caligraphy font with pentool and widhtool?
I should have watched this months ago! I've wasted so much time not knowing. thank you!!!