0 1 00:00:04,227 --> 00:00:07,320 Hi there, in this video we're going to redraw this whale... 1 2 00:00:07,345 --> 00:00:10,429 in this weird flowery thing that I made. 2 3 00:00:11,140 --> 00:00:13,437 We draw it like this, not using the Pen Tool. 3 4 00:00:13,462 --> 00:00:18,148 We're going to use the new fancy improved Curvature Tool. 4 5 00:00:18,976 --> 00:00:22,648 You are going to test it, you might fall in love with it, like me... 5 6 00:00:22,673 --> 00:00:24,517 and you might be abandoning the Pen Tool. 6 7 00:00:25,133 --> 00:00:26,304 All right, I take that back... 7 8 00:00:26,329 --> 00:00:29,188 Pen Tool, I'm sorry, but you're very hard to learn. 8 9 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:31,458 And the Curvature Tool, pretty easy. 9 10 00:00:31,888 --> 00:00:34,326 Let's go and learn how easy it is in this video. 10 11 00:00:36,445 --> 00:00:37,328 We're going to show you the difference... 11 12 00:00:37,353 --> 00:00:39,233 between the Pen Tool and the Curvature Tool. 12 13 00:00:39,334 --> 00:00:40,849 We're going to focus on the Curvature Tool... 13 14 00:00:40,874 --> 00:00:43,731 because probably most of you doing this advanced class... 14 15 00:00:43,756 --> 00:00:46,099 has at least got the basics of the Pen Tool. 15 16 00:00:46,124 --> 00:00:49,419 We'll do an advanced video right next so we can get skilled up with the Pen Tool. 16 17 00:00:49,452 --> 00:00:50,770 But for the moment we're going to look at... 17 18 00:00:50,795 --> 00:00:52,966 why you should give the Curvature Tool a go. 18 19 00:00:52,991 --> 00:00:55,459 Now if you are handy with the Pen Tool, like I am... 19 20 00:00:55,966 --> 00:00:57,271 I found the Curvature Tool like... 20 21 00:00:57,296 --> 00:00:59,756 at the beginning I was like, "Ah, why do I need the Pen Tool?" 21 22 00:00:59,789 --> 00:01:01,325 In fact, it's quite amazing, what it does... 22 23 00:01:01,357 --> 00:01:03,841 so throughout this course, my request is... 23 24 00:01:03,866 --> 00:01:07,029 just to give the Curvature Tool a go throughout this one, it's pretty cool. 24 25 00:01:07,145 --> 00:01:09,411 First of all let's look at the Pen Tool, which we know, and love. 25 26 00:01:09,436 --> 00:01:11,739 I'm going to draw-- we're going to start with this guy on the right here... 26 27 00:01:11,764 --> 00:01:12,786 we're going to draw the basic. 27 28 00:01:13,247 --> 00:01:14,903 Let's say I want to draw this circle. 28 29 00:01:15,576 --> 00:01:18,005 'Pencil' is click and drag, for a curve. 29 30 00:01:18,669 --> 00:01:20,317 And, click and drag for a curve. 30 31 00:01:20,490 --> 00:01:22,935 Click and drag for a curve. I'm trying my best circle, okay? 31 32 00:01:26,661 --> 00:01:28,435 It's okay? 32 33 00:01:28,709 --> 00:01:30,677 Let's do the same thing with the Curvature Tool. 33 34 00:01:30,943 --> 00:01:33,373 Now, Curvature Tool, you just click once for a curve. 34 35 00:01:34,896 --> 00:01:37,396 You can see, once I've kind of finished my first-- 35 36 00:01:37,421 --> 00:01:40,669 I've got more than two points here, it starts doing an ugly curve. 36 37 00:01:40,974 --> 00:01:42,075 So I'm going to click another time... 37 38 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:43,858 and another time, roughly in the corners here. 38 39 00:01:43,990 --> 00:01:47,161 You can see, just does, by default, nicer curves. 39 40 00:01:47,904 --> 00:01:53,606 Let's have a look at some of the pros and cons for the Curvature Tool. 40 41 00:01:53,724 --> 00:01:56,638 Remember, the circle here, we click once for a curve. 41 42 00:01:56,810 --> 00:02:00,919 Let's say we want a corner, so what we do is we double click for a corner. 42 43 00:02:01,716 --> 00:02:03,615 Along here, there's a long big curve here... 43 44 00:02:03,648 --> 00:02:05,904 about half way along, I click once, because I want a curve. 44 45 00:02:06,269 --> 00:02:08,183 Then you can see, once I start dragging out... 45 46 00:02:08,425 --> 00:02:11,315 I get roughly where I need it to be, and I can... 46 47 00:02:11,628 --> 00:02:14,388 Remember, this is a corner point as well, because it's a change of direction... 47 48 00:02:14,413 --> 00:02:15,464 I double click. 48 49 00:02:16,706 --> 00:02:19,698 Up here, I've got two kinds of curves. 49 50 00:02:19,933 --> 00:02:22,292 There's one going this way, and one bending around. 50 51 00:02:22,317 --> 00:02:26,174 So I want one there for a curve, and maybe one there for another curve. 51 52 00:02:26,223 --> 00:02:27,823 Messed it totally, that's all right.. 52 53 00:02:27,943 --> 00:02:29,017 I'm back to the beginning here. 53 54 00:02:29,042 --> 00:02:30,670 This is the way, but when it joins back up... 54 55 00:02:31,708 --> 00:02:33,427 you just click once to kind of finish it off... 55 56 00:02:33,452 --> 00:02:34,645 whether it's a corner to a curve. 56 57 00:02:34,677 --> 00:02:36,973 Just kind of click once to join it all back up. 57 58 00:02:37,318 --> 00:02:40,497 What you'll first of all notice is that it's a pretty sweet curve, right? 58 59 00:02:41,044 --> 00:02:42,333 It needs some adjustments. 59 60 00:02:42,466 --> 00:02:45,005 You can adjust it-- and the cool thing about adjusting it... 60 61 00:02:45,030 --> 00:02:48,466 this is probably its biggest, awesome trait. 61 62 00:02:48,498 --> 00:02:50,801 Watch this, if I start dragging this one... 62 63 00:02:51,279 --> 00:02:52,380 what you'll notice is... 63 64 00:02:52,468 --> 00:02:53,859 can you see the line underneath here. 64 65 00:02:53,884 --> 00:02:56,326 A kind of pointer, watch this line while I'm dragging this top one. 65 66 00:02:56,630 --> 00:02:58,115 Can you see, it actually flexes. 66 67 00:02:58,255 --> 00:03:01,224 So it's not only adjusting this one... 67 68 00:03:01,256 --> 00:03:05,676 it's actually adjusting the next one to continue a nice smooth curve. 68 69 00:03:05,779 --> 00:03:09,052 I can drag this one and try and get it a little nicer. 69 70 00:03:09,278 --> 00:03:11,551 Drag this one in. Don't know what I'm trying to do. 70 71 00:03:11,755 --> 00:03:13,552 I guess, the difference would be is... 71 72 00:03:13,577 --> 00:03:15,631 if I try to do that in the Pen Tool... 72 73 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,302 so, Pen Tool, I'm going to click once for a corner. 73 74 00:03:19,327 --> 00:03:21,044 I click and drag for a curve. 74 75 00:03:21,372 --> 00:03:23,231 Click once, it's not going to be too bad. 75 76 00:03:23,443 --> 00:03:25,263 It's not a hard shape to do. 76 77 00:03:25,559 --> 00:03:27,762 I should have given it a Fill, click once. 77 78 00:03:28,037 --> 00:03:30,183 The difference is, if I grab the White Arrow... 78 79 00:03:30,208 --> 00:03:31,435 and start adjusting this... 79 80 00:03:31,460 --> 00:03:34,451 you can see, it does nothing to affect this line here. 80 81 00:03:34,476 --> 00:03:37,427 You end up with this kind of, really kind of... 81 82 00:03:37,452 --> 00:03:39,724 Well, just not as balanced a curve. 82 83 00:03:39,749 --> 00:03:42,370 So I find that the Curvature Tool just ends up... 83 84 00:03:42,395 --> 00:03:44,334 making my drawings look a bit nicer. 84 85 00:03:44,810 --> 00:03:47,193 Now if you love this control with all these handles... 85 86 00:03:47,412 --> 00:03:49,040 never fear, they are still here. 86 87 00:03:49,065 --> 00:03:51,326 Watch, I can click on these corner points, they are still here. 87 88 00:03:52,131 --> 00:03:53,639 They're just kind of hidden from you. 88 89 00:03:53,787 --> 00:03:57,287 Remember, the biggest thing is that, if I change this one... 89 90 00:03:57,312 --> 00:04:00,928 it influences the one above it, so things just end up looking nicer. 90 91 00:04:01,584 --> 00:04:04,741 So remember, double click for a corner, click once for a curve... 91 92 00:04:05,155 --> 00:04:06,397 double click for a corner. 92 93 00:04:08,155 --> 00:04:09,287 No, don't double click. 93 94 00:04:09,319 --> 00:04:12,264 So if I accidentally do it, that's fine, I can double click it again... 94 95 00:04:12,289 --> 00:04:14,780 and it goes back to being a curve, so, if it's a curve... 95 96 00:04:15,092 --> 00:04:18,920 double click, corner, double click, curve, kind of toggles it in and out. 96 97 00:04:19,241 --> 00:04:22,381 I go back to here, and it's a curve, no it's a corner, double click. 97 98 00:04:23,647 --> 00:04:26,397 I should get rid of the Fill here, I will, for this one. 98 99 00:04:26,545 --> 00:04:30,006 And there's a curve, so click once for a curve, click once again. 99 100 00:04:30,233 --> 00:04:33,615 You can just see, pretty nice curves. 100 101 00:04:34,467 --> 00:04:36,983 What we're going to do now is redraw this whale. 101 102 00:04:37,108 --> 00:04:38,912 We're going to use the Curvature Tool. 102 103 00:04:39,662 --> 00:04:40,667 We're going to work our way around... 103 104 00:04:40,692 --> 00:04:42,943 nothing really new from what we've done here... 104 105 00:04:42,968 --> 00:04:45,108 but this is the shape we're going to use for this class. 105 106 00:04:45,133 --> 00:04:47,032 So, this is the one I really want you to do. 106 107 00:04:47,057 --> 00:04:49,631 If you skipped this one, I really want you to do this shape. 107 108 00:04:51,272 --> 00:04:52,373 Let's draw it together. 108 109 00:04:52,398 --> 00:04:54,248 So double click for a corner. 109 110 00:04:54,397 --> 00:04:57,439 And half way down here, click once for a curve. 110 111 00:04:57,464 --> 00:04:58,674 We're going to adjust it later on. 111 112 00:04:59,356 --> 00:05:01,177 And I'm going to double click for a corner. 112 113 00:05:01,979 --> 00:05:03,628 This Fill here is driving me mad. 113 114 00:05:03,661 --> 00:05:06,886 I'm going to go to 'Properties'... I'm going to say 'no' Fill. 114 115 00:05:07,813 --> 00:05:10,141 I should have done it at the beginning, that's what I said I was going to do. 115 116 00:05:11,321 --> 00:05:13,344 So, curve, click once... 116 117 00:05:13,844 --> 00:05:14,821 double click. 117 118 00:05:15,133 --> 00:05:17,703 Clicking once for a curve, double click for a corner. 118 119 00:05:18,540 --> 00:05:20,626 This curve's just kind of slight here... 119 120 00:05:21,024 --> 00:05:22,586 so I'm going to click once about here. 120 121 00:05:22,782 --> 00:05:25,719 Maybe once in there, and you're like, "What is it doing?" 121 122 00:05:25,876 --> 00:05:29,039 It's not till you go out here, to where-- 122 123 00:05:29,382 --> 00:05:32,054 I'm looking for the change of direction, because that changes there, right? 123 124 00:05:32,195 --> 00:05:35,023 So I want kind of half way in there, I'm looking for the Apex, really. 124 125 00:05:35,383 --> 00:05:37,766 So I'm going to click once, click once. 125 126 00:05:38,133 --> 00:05:41,008 Man, look how good it's looking. Double click. 126 127 00:05:43,539 --> 00:05:45,961 If you're like me, the Pen Tool, you get good... 127 128 00:05:45,994 --> 00:05:47,929 but you've got to really fiddle with it afterwards... 128 129 00:05:47,954 --> 00:05:49,650 using Direct Selection Tool to get any sort of... 129 130 00:05:49,844 --> 00:05:51,399 lovely curves through here. 130 131 00:05:52,422 --> 00:05:54,719 This one has a slight depth, so click once. 131 132 00:05:54,946 --> 00:05:56,852 It has a bit of a corner there, click once. 132 133 00:05:57,118 --> 00:05:58,805 And double click for a corner. 133 134 00:05:59,001 --> 00:06:01,368 It's coming out pretty nice. 134 135 00:06:01,430 --> 00:06:03,727 I do say so myself. Double click. 135 136 00:06:04,821 --> 00:06:07,031 Click once, double click. 136 137 00:06:07,719 --> 00:06:10,191 The curve, I probably want it here. 137 138 00:06:11,258 --> 00:06:14,977 Then, this one here, probably can't go all the way out here... 138 139 00:06:15,002 --> 00:06:17,797 so I'm going to double click for a corner. 139 140 00:06:18,078 --> 00:06:19,969 That's probably what I'm going to have to tidy up. 140 141 00:06:20,891 --> 00:06:24,141 So double click. There's a slight curve here, click once. 141 142 00:06:27,570 --> 00:06:29,344 Give it a Fill color. 142 143 00:06:30,250 --> 00:06:35,547 I'm going to give this one a Fill color of blue, just because it's a whale. 143 144 00:06:36,899 --> 00:06:39,337 I'm going to continue with drawing this now with the Curve Tool. 144 145 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:41,156 Let's have a look at adjusting this thing. 145 146 00:06:41,766 --> 00:06:44,321 There are times when you're like, actually just didn't do what I want. 146 147 00:06:44,485 --> 00:06:47,469 You can grab the Curve Tool, and go in, and go-- 147 148 00:06:47,501 --> 00:06:49,890 actually this guy just needs to be maybe up here. 148 149 00:06:50,672 --> 00:06:52,751 I can try and get him to blend a bit nicer. 149 150 00:06:56,094 --> 00:06:58,790 They'll work, or I can undo, and grab my White Arrow. 150 151 00:06:58,899 --> 00:07:00,881 The Direct Selection Tool, grab this guy and go... 151 152 00:07:01,178 --> 00:07:03,251 what's going on here, and go... 152 153 00:07:03,438 --> 00:07:05,954 this guy needs to be coming straight out of the back of this one. 153 154 00:07:06,086 --> 00:07:07,961 And this one needs to go a bit higher. 154 155 00:07:08,063 --> 00:07:10,751 So it's up to you how you best want to do it... 155 156 00:07:11,219 --> 00:07:14,586 but let's continue on. 156 157 00:07:16,586 --> 00:07:19,490 Double click, click once. 157 158 00:07:20,352 --> 00:07:21,547 Double click. 158 159 00:07:23,219 --> 00:07:24,336 Click once. 159 160 00:07:26,852 --> 00:07:28,360 Pretty nice. 160 161 00:07:28,586 --> 00:07:30,477 Double click for a corner. 161 162 00:07:30,641 --> 00:07:32,735 Click once, double click. 162 163 00:07:34,007 --> 00:07:36,522 I'll show you one little trick, because this is getting boring. 163 164 00:07:37,108 --> 00:07:40,311 It's great, but let me show you a little trick you can do. 164 165 00:07:40,336 --> 00:07:41,451 Say you want these-- 165 166 00:07:41,476 --> 00:07:43,496 For some reason I draw these leafy things all the time... 166 167 00:07:43,521 --> 00:07:44,843 if you've watched me in my tutorials. 167 168 00:07:45,319 --> 00:07:48,780 Leafy kind of things. It's meant to be water, by the way. 168 169 00:07:49,436 --> 00:07:50,858 But what I can do is... 169 170 00:07:50,975 --> 00:07:53,100 see this guy here, I can grab the Curvature Tool... 170 171 00:07:53,125 --> 00:07:57,162 and remember, if I want to change it from a curve to a corner... 171 172 00:07:57,358 --> 00:07:59,108 remember, if I get it wrong, I just double click it. 172 173 00:07:59,452 --> 00:08:00,803 I find that's kind of cool. 173 174 00:08:01,413 --> 00:08:04,998 Especially that one, that kind of leafy shape, with one end pointing. 174 175 00:08:05,093 --> 00:08:07,303 Especially if it's balanced, it's quite tough to do. 175 176 00:08:07,843 --> 00:08:10,553 Now if you're getting bored you can skip to the next video now. 176 177 00:08:11,671 --> 00:08:14,412 I'm going to delete that. I'll just go double click. 177 178 00:08:15,093 --> 00:08:17,264 Click once, double click. 178 179 00:08:17,905 --> 00:08:19,718 Click once, double click. 179 180 00:08:20,483 --> 00:08:22,460 Click once, double click. 180 181 00:08:23,202 --> 00:08:24,468 I'm going to zoom in. 181 182 00:08:26,022 --> 00:08:27,186 Double click. 182 183 00:08:27,725 --> 00:08:28,671 Curve, 183 184 00:08:29,468 --> 00:08:30,460 Double click. 184 185 00:08:31,139 --> 00:08:32,858 One click, double click. 185 186 00:08:33,733 --> 00:08:35,303 Click once, double click. 186 187 00:08:35,725 --> 00:08:37,553 Driving myself mad now, click once. 187 188 00:08:38,741 --> 00:08:40,905 I'm just getting to the inside, but that's okay. 188 189 00:08:40,992 --> 00:08:42,077 You get the idea, right? 189 190 00:08:49,356 --> 00:08:50,473 How awesome are we? 190 191 00:08:50,498 --> 00:08:52,379 This one needs a little bit of adjusting. 191 192 00:08:52,404 --> 00:08:55,106 I'm going to grab the Curvature Tool, and say, you my friend, come down a bit. 192 193 00:08:55,739 --> 00:08:56,848 If yours is snapping... 193 194 00:08:56,873 --> 00:08:58,245 that's one of things, it's like... 194 195 00:08:58,270 --> 00:09:00,528 "Why are you doing all of these things, and snapping?" 195 196 00:09:00,606 --> 00:09:03,426 There's two ways of getting around that, you can zoom right in... 196 197 00:09:04,262 --> 00:09:07,238 so if I hit 'Command +', or 'Control +' on a PC... 197 198 00:09:07,263 --> 00:09:10,317 so zooming right in gives you a lot more control. 198 199 00:09:10,342 --> 00:09:11,834 You can see, it's not trying to snap now... 199 200 00:09:11,859 --> 00:09:13,520 just because it's kind of filling in the screen... 200 201 00:09:13,801 --> 00:09:16,910 or you can go to 'View', and turn 'off' Smart Guides. 201 202 00:09:17,004 --> 00:09:18,582 I use this shortcut all the time. 202 203 00:09:18,607 --> 00:09:21,465 It's 'Command U' on a Mac, or 'Control U' on a PC. 203 204 00:09:21,645 --> 00:09:26,293 And if you're further out, it's not going to try and snap as much. 204 205 00:09:27,191 --> 00:09:31,527 So I'm going to turn it back on, the Smart Guides, and do some adjustments. 205 206 00:09:33,114 --> 00:09:35,996 The only thing I need is my eyeball. 206 207 00:09:36,535 --> 00:09:37,738 Last of it. 207 208 00:09:38,831 --> 00:09:40,762 I'm just going to give it a 'Fill', draw my eyeball. 208 209 00:09:40,933 --> 00:09:43,777 And you're like, "He's not going to use the Curvature Tool, is he?" I am. 209 210 00:09:43,942 --> 00:09:45,340 You should use the Ellipse Tool... 210 211 00:09:45,481 --> 00:09:47,801 but we're proving a point, click once, click once... 211 212 00:09:47,826 --> 00:09:49,489 click once, click once. 212 213 00:09:51,043 --> 00:09:53,731 It's not a perfect circle, but it's not what I'm looking for, for this guy. 213 214 00:09:53,756 --> 00:09:56,379 I'm just looking for a little bit of weirdness. 214 215 00:09:58,559 --> 00:09:59,692 The Stroke... 215 216 00:10:00,347 --> 00:10:04,152 I've got a Stroke and a Fill, and I'm going to put this one back in. 216 217 00:10:04,177 --> 00:10:05,402 I'm going to grab the 'Black Arrow'. 217 218 00:10:06,082 --> 00:10:08,746 I'm using the Eyedropper Tool just to steal color from him. 218 219 00:10:10,090 --> 00:10:12,074 That my friends is the Curvature Tool. 219 220 00:10:13,183 --> 00:10:16,472 In the next video, let's get into some super advanced Pen Tool stuff. 220 221 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,677 If you're like me, and you're good at the Pen Tool... 221 222 00:10:20,702 --> 00:10:22,826 try the Curvature Tool at least for this class. 222 223 00:10:22,851 --> 00:10:25,508 I bet you, you're going to find some nice things about it. 223 224 00:10:25,953 --> 00:10:27,500 All right, I'll see you in the next video.