0 1 00:00:00,188 --> 00:00:04,859 Hi there, in this video we're going to take the Width Tool to the next level. 1 2 00:00:05,070 --> 00:00:06,812 We're going to take this hand drawn logo... 2 3 00:00:06,837 --> 00:00:09,938 and amazingly vectorize it. 3 4 00:00:10,125 --> 00:00:13,570 Same with this one here, we're going to take this Pen Tool drawing, and... 4 5 00:00:14,195 --> 00:00:18,250 do all this kind of cool blobby bits to the ends. 5 6 00:00:18,578 --> 00:00:21,625 All right, let's go learn how to do that now in Illustrator. 6 7 00:00:22,352 --> 00:00:25,726 I've got open the 'Width Tool1.ai' file. 7 8 00:00:26,094 --> 00:00:28,359 We're going to draw this kind of curve in the middle here. 8 9 00:00:28,384 --> 00:00:33,117 Here's a logo I made a really long time ago for a company called Arctic Kiwi. 9 10 00:00:33,352 --> 00:00:36,679 It just has this really nice kind of New Zealand coral shape in there. 10 11 00:00:36,704 --> 00:00:39,258 Mountains, that's what it's meant to be anyway... 11 12 00:00:39,430 --> 00:00:41,633 but we want to get this curve, we're going to use the Width Tool. 12 13 00:00:41,734 --> 00:00:44,031 We'll look at some of the advanced Width Tool features. 13 14 00:00:44,242 --> 00:00:46,719 First of all we need to get this kind of curve shape. 14 15 00:00:47,046 --> 00:00:48,827 Now that can be the hardest bit, right? 15 16 00:00:48,861 --> 00:00:53,328 I'm going to use the Curvature Tool, it gives me kind of nicest curviest line. 16 17 00:00:53,609 --> 00:00:55,742 We're practicing the Curvature Tool, remember? 17 18 00:00:55,984 --> 00:00:57,351 I'm going to click once. 18 19 00:00:57,387 --> 00:01:00,660 Now if you kind of put two, not enough curve points in... 19 20 00:01:01,091 --> 00:01:02,637 I'm trying to be really sparingly. 20 21 00:01:02,809 --> 00:01:04,961 And if you know, the least amount of Anchor Points... 21 22 00:01:04,986 --> 00:01:06,356 generally gives you a nicer curve. 22 23 00:01:06,388 --> 00:01:09,644 That's good, but it's not following the line as I wanted it. 23 24 00:01:10,065 --> 00:01:11,830 So what we might do is, I'm going to undo... 24 25 00:01:11,955 --> 00:01:14,807 and just kind of add one or two more extra points... 25 26 00:01:14,939 --> 00:01:18,541 instead of going all the way, down to here, I'm going to kind of maybe get there. 26 27 00:01:19,158 --> 00:01:20,776 Maybe there. 27 28 00:01:21,001 --> 00:01:23,333 Then, there. 28 29 00:01:24,963 --> 00:01:25,846 There. 29 30 00:01:26,299 --> 00:01:28,729 You'll see, as it comes around... 30 31 00:01:28,908 --> 00:01:30,924 kind of reaches back, and influences the line. 31 32 00:01:30,971 --> 00:01:32,369 Thank you, Curvature Tool. 32 33 00:01:32,643 --> 00:01:34,389 Now if you get it close, and you're like... 33 34 00:01:34,414 --> 00:01:36,611 "Actually it's kind of close, but not what I wanted"... 34 35 00:01:36,636 --> 00:01:38,565 you can use the White Arrow to adjust it. 35 36 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:39,993 But let's say it's really bad... 36 37 00:01:40,018 --> 00:01:41,956 and you've got something that's not what you wanted. 37 38 00:01:42,244 --> 00:01:43,994 Actually let's do a duplicate over here. 38 39 00:01:44,026 --> 00:01:47,228 A nice little trick before we do the Width Tool... 39 40 00:01:47,401 --> 00:01:50,877 is, with it selected, if you've got something that just doesn't flow nicely... 40 41 00:01:50,902 --> 00:01:54,197 you can use the 'Object', 'Path', 'Simplify'. 41 42 00:01:54,549 --> 00:01:57,033 Doesn’t always work, you can see, there's just kind of a tiny adjustment. 42 43 00:01:57,307 --> 00:01:59,947 I felt like it's just a nicer curve there now... 43 44 00:01:59,972 --> 00:02:02,737 especially across the top here, it's kind of peaked to across this. 44 45 00:02:03,048 --> 00:02:04,876 You can play around with curve position... 45 46 00:02:05,408 --> 00:02:07,736 and decide on how much-- 46 47 00:02:08,197 --> 00:02:10,634 Don't worry too much about where it is in this slider... 47 48 00:02:10,667 --> 00:02:12,517 because it just kind of changes the shapes. 48 49 00:02:12,542 --> 00:02:15,357 So, just kind of drag along until you find... 49 50 00:02:15,382 --> 00:02:17,350 like, "Actually I think that's quite nice." 50 51 00:02:17,690 --> 00:02:19,244 We're kind of liking it about there. 51 52 00:02:20,830 --> 00:02:21,909 Make sure Preview is 'on'. 52 53 00:02:22,541 --> 00:02:26,049 Also know that sometimes I use it, and it does make a big mess of it... 53 54 00:02:26,074 --> 00:02:29,964 but I'd say, 80% of the time it makes it a little bit better. 54 55 00:02:29,989 --> 00:02:32,084 You can see, I'm liking that curve now. 55 56 00:02:32,584 --> 00:02:34,506 Goodbye, you're in-- 56 57 00:02:34,983 --> 00:02:37,428 I'm going to turn the background on, try and line him back up. 57 58 00:02:38,561 --> 00:02:41,310 When you are drawing this, don't worry too much about the background drawing... 58 59 00:02:41,335 --> 00:02:42,686 because that's just hand drawn... 59 60 00:02:42,711 --> 00:02:45,313 like it was my good guess, to try and make it nice and curvy. 60 61 00:02:45,530 --> 00:02:48,288 But we want to get something that looks perfect and vector. 61 62 00:02:49,629 --> 00:02:50,873 Don't worry too much about it. 62 63 00:02:51,319 --> 00:02:52,959 Now we're going to look at the Width Tool. 63 64 00:02:52,984 --> 00:02:56,639 The Width Tool is this one here, it's like a harp or something. 64 65 00:02:56,928 --> 00:02:57,952 Click on him. 65 66 00:02:57,977 --> 00:03:00,553 And the easy way to do it is to find somewhere... 66 67 00:03:00,725 --> 00:03:03,288 kind of the fattest point of that line, I'm going to just drag it out. 67 68 00:03:03,561 --> 00:03:06,710 So that's a pretty cool thing, if you've never used it before... 68 69 00:03:06,735 --> 00:03:07,897 but lot of people have. 69 70 00:03:07,959 --> 00:03:09,913 So there's a few things you'll need to watch out for. 70 71 00:03:09,945 --> 00:03:11,092 It is, if I zoom in... 71 72 00:03:11,117 --> 00:03:17,586 because I used a Font size of 1, and a Stroke width of 1pt to start with... 72 73 00:03:17,611 --> 00:03:19,906 you can see, it's got kind of flattened, it's not what I wanted. 73 74 00:03:20,156 --> 00:03:22,453 So afterwards, you can do one of two things. 74 75 00:03:22,539 --> 00:03:25,951 You can just grab it, and just drag it in, to get it to be nice and tight... 75 76 00:03:26,949 --> 00:03:31,476 or you can just start with a really small weight font to start with... 76 77 00:03:31,585 --> 00:03:33,468 before you start drawing it. Up to you. 77 78 00:03:33,977 --> 00:03:36,766 Other things to know about the Width Tool, you can have more than 1 point. 78 79 00:03:36,859 --> 00:03:38,609 You can see, you can kind of adjust this one now... 79 80 00:03:38,634 --> 00:03:39,743 having lots of different points. 80 81 00:03:39,773 --> 00:03:41,284 If you get something in the wrong place... 81 82 00:03:41,309 --> 00:03:43,226 you can just click, hold, and drag the center of it. 82 83 00:03:43,251 --> 00:03:45,047 You can see, you can kind of move it around. 83 84 00:03:46,172 --> 00:03:50,226 I'm going to delete these by clicking it. I'm just hitting 'Delete' on my keyboard. 84 85 00:03:50,484 --> 00:03:51,867 Grab you as well, delete him. 85 86 00:03:52,391 --> 00:03:53,729 Another thing we can do is... 86 87 00:03:53,754 --> 00:03:55,977 let's say I want this outside to be just a bit bigger. 87 88 00:03:57,101 --> 00:03:58,523 Say I want it about there. 88 89 00:03:58,788 --> 00:04:02,421 You can hold down the 'Alt' key on a PC, or 'Option' key on a Mac. 89 90 00:04:02,446 --> 00:04:04,460 And you can grab either of these sides. 90 91 00:04:04,485 --> 00:04:07,015 You can see, they work independently of each other. 91 92 00:04:07,048 --> 00:04:08,836 If I let go of it, they start working together... 92 93 00:04:09,164 --> 00:04:12,900 while I'm holding down the 'Option' key, or the 'Alt' key on a PC 93 94 00:04:13,135 --> 00:04:16,456 I can kind of adjust just this one to get it kind of how I want it to be. 94 95 00:04:16,963 --> 00:04:21,026 So lots more awesome Width Tool action to come, but let's just finish this off. 95 96 00:04:21,312 --> 00:04:24,211 And I want to run into one of the problems that people do have... 96 97 00:04:24,555 --> 00:04:26,766 and a little cool shortcut to fix it. 97 98 00:04:27,016 --> 00:04:29,671 Let's say I'm using the Curvature Tool. 98 99 00:04:29,696 --> 00:04:32,336 I want to draw these lines, but I want to draw them as separate lines... 99 100 00:04:32,361 --> 00:04:35,804 because what happens is, click once, click again, click there... 100 101 00:04:36,062 --> 00:04:38,078 and it's joined up, that's easier, I can click off. 101 102 00:04:38,336 --> 00:04:39,797 Now I want to click down here. 102 103 00:04:39,977 --> 00:04:41,703 You, I don't want this to join up. 103 104 00:04:41,930 --> 00:04:44,836 Because it does kind of weird stuff, it just wants to do separate lines. 104 105 00:04:45,008 --> 00:04:48,460 The quickest way to fix that is, with it selected with the 'Black Arrow'... 105 106 00:04:48,734 --> 00:04:52,781 hold 'Command' on a Mac, or 'Control' on a PC, and hit '2'. 106 107 00:04:53,008 --> 00:04:55,805 It just locks it. It's kind of locked in the background now. 107 108 00:04:55,953 --> 00:04:59,094 Back to the Curvature Tool, click once, click once. 108 109 00:04:59,365 --> 00:05:01,646 Then at the top here, it's not going to try and join it. 109 110 00:05:02,195 --> 00:05:04,516 If we hold 'Command 2', it just locks it again. 110 111 00:05:04,541 --> 00:05:07,805 So it's kind of-- easy to put him on its own layer. 111 112 00:05:08,016 --> 00:05:09,875 Again, you, stop doing that. 112 113 00:05:09,907 --> 00:05:11,820 I'm going to go 'Command 2', all locked. 113 114 00:05:12,172 --> 00:05:14,852 So I can just continue on my merry way. 114 115 00:05:16,693 --> 00:05:18,677 I probably want to join some of these lines, but that's okay. 115 116 00:05:18,702 --> 00:05:20,755 So you, my friend, 'Command 2'. 116 117 00:05:21,623 --> 00:05:23,591 Then I grab my Curvature Tool. 117 118 00:05:26,349 --> 00:05:28,974 Click once, click again, back at the top there. 118 119 00:05:29,427 --> 00:05:31,240 Now you're thinking, "These are not joined." 119 120 00:05:31,505 --> 00:05:35,638 So, nice little trick is, let's make sure to unlock them all. 120 121 00:05:35,927 --> 00:05:38,576 So under 'Object', there's 'Unlock All'. 121 122 00:05:38,601 --> 00:05:41,279 For some reason that shortcut doesn't work on my machine. 122 123 00:05:41,597 --> 00:05:43,049 It's been done by something else... 123 124 00:05:43,074 --> 00:05:46,581 but what we can do is grab all of these Anchor Point at the top here. 124 125 00:05:46,762 --> 00:05:49,473 So I've used my 'White Arrow', I've just selected them all. 125 126 00:05:50,137 --> 00:05:53,543 Then I can go over here, the 'Align Panel', let's say I want to align there. 126 127 00:05:54,732 --> 00:05:56,106 'Align Vertical'. 127 128 00:05:56,660 --> 00:06:00,340 And 'Align Center Horizontal'. They just overlap each other now, perfect. 128 129 00:06:01,392 --> 00:06:04,189 So let's move on to our next Width Tool example. 129 130 00:06:05,150 --> 00:06:08,673 So the second example, open up 'Width Tool2'. 130 131 00:06:08,705 --> 00:06:12,118 And we'll do this kind of [size Scott style] kind of words. 131 132 00:06:12,143 --> 00:06:14,853 Check out [??]... 132 133 00:06:14,893 --> 00:06:19,329 he's got amazing stuff, like it's total copy of that type of effect. 133 134 00:06:19,455 --> 00:06:20,742 What we're looking for is... 134 135 00:06:20,767 --> 00:06:23,799 we're looking for these kind of tear drop ends, and nice curves. 135 136 00:06:24,142 --> 00:06:26,673 There's two things we're going to do, let's do the tear drop one first. 136 137 00:06:26,698 --> 00:06:27,838 So I'm going to grab-- 137 138 00:06:27,939 --> 00:06:28,982 We'll use the Curvature Tool... 138 139 00:06:29,007 --> 00:06:30,829 because I find it easier for doing these curves. 139 140 00:06:30,956 --> 00:06:33,384 Click once, click twice. 140 141 00:06:33,409 --> 00:06:34,517 How many do I need? 141 142 00:06:35,369 --> 00:06:37,478 I've practiced this a couple of times, teaching it... 142 143 00:06:37,503 --> 00:06:40,627 so, kind of know I need a little bit more than I normally do. 143 144 00:06:41,118 --> 00:06:43,099 I want to kind of come around here, and then, maybe... 144 145 00:06:44,549 --> 00:06:45,377 there. 145 146 00:06:45,692 --> 00:06:48,301 Now I could use the White Arrow to tidy these up... 146 147 00:06:48,342 --> 00:06:50,505 but I'm happy, roughly how it is. 147 148 00:06:51,903 --> 00:06:54,747 What you might have run into problems is-- mine didn't have a Fill... 148 149 00:06:54,779 --> 00:06:56,342 if you're finding it hard to draw... 149 150 00:06:56,367 --> 00:06:58,536 just turn off the Fill before you start drawing. 150 151 00:06:58,895 --> 00:07:00,309 Next thing I want to do is... 151 152 00:07:00,481 --> 00:07:03,645 turn the Stroke Weight way down, so it's nice and thin. 152 153 00:07:03,997 --> 00:07:05,379 Let's grab the Width Tool. 153 154 00:07:05,762 --> 00:07:06,786 There he is there. 154 155 00:07:07,036 --> 00:07:09,286 We're going to have a couple of things, one is the Star Point. 155 156 00:07:09,434 --> 00:07:11,879 What you'll find with the Star Point, suppose you drag it the wrong way... 156 157 00:07:11,904 --> 00:07:13,762 and it's like, seems to not work... 157 158 00:07:13,869 --> 00:07:16,291 just drag it the opposite way, so I'm dragging it down. 158 159 00:07:17,923 --> 00:07:20,923 So that's my kind of first part. It's doing a pretty good job, right? 159 160 00:07:21,932 --> 00:07:23,963 The next bit is, I want that tear drop end. 160 161 00:07:24,416 --> 00:07:27,775 So what we'll do is-- I'm going to zoom in close on this tip. 161 162 00:07:28,025 --> 00:07:30,541 And you need two parts, I'm going to draw out one part. 162 163 00:07:31,873 --> 00:07:33,865 Now it just kind of looks like a regular line... 163 164 00:07:33,890 --> 00:07:36,396 but just behind it, drag in a skinnier bit. 164 165 00:07:36,421 --> 00:07:38,537 It kind of makes like a little tuber thing. 165 166 00:07:38,998 --> 00:07:41,623 Yours might be working by default, it's probably not... 166 167 00:07:41,740 --> 00:07:43,365 but if you click on the line... 167 168 00:07:43,506 --> 00:07:45,740 go over here, Stroke, and click on the word 'Stroke'. 168 169 00:07:47,162 --> 00:07:50,435 By default it's set to the unfortunately named Butt Cap. 169 170 00:07:51,029 --> 00:07:52,841 You want to go to the next one called 'Round Cap'... 170 171 00:07:52,866 --> 00:07:54,209 and it will give you that kind of look. 171 172 00:07:54,234 --> 00:07:57,052 Breaks this end, but we can fix this end the easy way by lobbying it off... 172 173 00:07:57,263 --> 00:07:59,529 but it gives you that nice kind of tear drop shape. 173 174 00:07:59,771 --> 00:08:01,709 That's kind of what we're looking for, for this drawing. 174 175 00:08:01,857 --> 00:08:03,435 Now you might be a master with the Pen Tool... 175 176 00:08:03,460 --> 00:08:04,778 and spend a while getting this curve... 176 177 00:08:04,803 --> 00:08:07,334 because it's pretty good, but it's not perfect. 177 178 00:08:07,521 --> 00:08:10,404 I'll show you a way, say this one here is quite circular, I want to kind of-- 178 179 00:08:10,662 --> 00:08:14,052 I'll show you a trick that I use to get a reasonably perfect circle. 179 180 00:08:14,498 --> 00:08:15,857 I'm going to start with an Ellipse. 180 181 00:08:15,890 --> 00:08:17,755 You might have to hold down the 'Rectangle tool'... 181 182 00:08:17,780 --> 00:08:18,819 and grab the 'Ellipse Tool'. 182 183 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:20,543 I'm going to draw an Ellipse. 183 184 00:08:20,591 --> 00:08:21,747 Now, shortcut, if you hold down... 184 185 00:08:21,772 --> 00:08:24,801 the 'Alt' key on a PC, or 'Option' key on a Mac, it starts from the center. 185 186 00:08:25,105 --> 00:08:27,824 And hold down 'Shift', it will give you a perfect circle. 186 187 00:08:27,849 --> 00:08:29,301 That's what I'm looking for, right? 187 188 00:08:29,947 --> 00:08:32,486 Now remember, my thing underneath is just a hand drawn one... 188 189 00:08:32,511 --> 00:08:35,111 so it's never going to match up perfect, so don't-- 189 190 00:08:35,322 --> 00:08:37,208 We're not looking to try and do that, right? 190 191 00:08:37,656 --> 00:08:39,973 We're looking to get it close. 191 192 00:08:40,860 --> 00:08:42,657 What I want to do is slice this into bits. 192 193 00:08:42,682 --> 00:08:44,869 Now, I don't use the Knife Tool very often... 193 194 00:08:44,901 --> 00:08:46,946 see this shortcut, this Scissors Tool... 194 195 00:08:46,971 --> 00:08:49,009 I said knife, I meant scissors. 195 196 00:08:49,228 --> 00:08:52,095 So if you can't find it, it's hiding underneath the Eraser Tool. 196 197 00:08:52,533 --> 00:08:54,033 And he's really good at going-- 197 198 00:08:54,369 --> 00:08:57,845 click once, and click again. 198 199 00:08:58,267 --> 00:09:01,861 And what it's done is, if I hit the 'Delete' key twice... 199 200 00:09:01,955 --> 00:09:03,541 it deletes that chunk. 200 201 00:09:03,566 --> 00:09:05,134 You might have the wrong bit deleted. 201 202 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:06,591 So you might have to select with the Black Arrow... 202 203 00:09:06,616 --> 00:09:08,809 and delete the bit you need to go on. 203 204 00:09:09,215 --> 00:09:11,333 You can see here, I've kind of got the beginnings of this going. 204 205 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:13,090 Now I want to continue it on. 205 206 00:09:13,809 --> 00:09:16,168 So I'm going to use the Pen Tool or the Curvature Tool. 206 207 00:09:16,193 --> 00:09:17,622 Where's the Curvature Tool? 207 208 00:09:17,647 --> 00:09:18,879 I want to show you something. 208 209 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,449 Curvature Tool is like, "I want to be this side"... 209 210 00:09:21,474 --> 00:09:22,817 because that was the last point drawn. 210 211 00:09:23,215 --> 00:09:24,848 And you're like, "No, I want you to be this side." 211 212 00:09:24,873 --> 00:09:27,114 I'm going to grab the 'White Arrow', and I'm going to say... 212 213 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:28,692 click on you. 213 214 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,551 Now if I go back to my Curvature Tool, it says... 214 215 00:09:30,866 --> 00:09:35,044 "I defy you, and do whatever I want," and go back to that first one. 215 216 00:09:35,162 --> 00:09:37,801 So I find this is a little bit of a bug. 216 217 00:09:37,826 --> 00:09:40,122 If you can think of a better way than this hack. 217 218 00:09:40,285 --> 00:09:43,019 What I do is, I click on this thing, click on it once... 218 219 00:09:43,278 --> 00:09:45,356 and then go back to my Curve Tool, and it goes... 219 220 00:09:45,381 --> 00:09:47,817 "Did you mean this guy?", and I'm like, "Yes, I did." 220 221 00:09:48,168 --> 00:09:49,778 So I use the Pen Tool just to click it once. 221 222 00:09:50,317 --> 00:09:53,754 So what I'm looking for now is probably one about there. 222 223 00:09:54,356 --> 00:09:56,356 I'm just going to follow this guy down the middle. 223 224 00:09:56,473 --> 00:09:58,668 Now I want it to follow down the center... 224 225 00:09:58,824 --> 00:10:00,980 I want it to be straight, don't want it to be a big curve like this. 225 226 00:10:01,013 --> 00:10:02,403 So I'm going to double click. 226 227 00:10:02,708 --> 00:10:04,809 Then here, double click. 227 228 00:10:05,396 --> 00:10:06,788 It didn't do a great job there... 228 229 00:10:06,813 --> 00:10:09,006 so I'm going to go back, and maybe just adjust it. 229 230 00:10:12,779 --> 00:10:14,529 Try not to wreck it too much. 230 231 00:10:15,310 --> 00:10:16,443 It's looking okay. 231 232 00:10:16,607 --> 00:10:19,426 You might now go with your White Arrow, and tidy this up. 232 233 00:10:19,451 --> 00:10:20,904 There's a couple of bits. 233 234 00:10:20,929 --> 00:10:23,084 Whole mad stuff, we're not getting perfect circles. 234 235 00:10:24,864 --> 00:10:26,021 Width Tool helps. 235 236 00:10:26,591 --> 00:10:27,579 I'm using the White Arrow... 236 237 00:10:27,697 --> 00:10:29,907 the Direct Selection Tool just to tidy it up. 237 238 00:10:30,404 --> 00:10:32,247 I feel like I'm kind of there. 238 239 00:10:32,404 --> 00:10:34,107 Might need a little bit of work across. 239 240 00:10:34,450 --> 00:10:36,919 What I might do as well is turn this one underneath off... 240 241 00:10:36,944 --> 00:10:39,419 because it's kind of influencing where I think it should be. 241 242 00:10:40,677 --> 00:10:41,739 Same thing again. 242 243 00:10:41,764 --> 00:10:44,380 So, I've used this circle to get the bulk of it done. 243 244 00:10:44,544 --> 00:10:47,739 Now I'm going to turn down my 'Stroke' to something really light. 244 245 00:10:47,966 --> 00:10:49,724 I'm going to grab my 'Width Tool'. 245 246 00:10:49,989 --> 00:10:51,575 I'm going to-- 246 247 00:10:52,591 --> 00:10:54,075 I might need to turn that back on now. 247 248 00:10:54,943 --> 00:10:56,036 Just turned it off. 248 249 00:10:56,782 --> 00:10:58,466 I want a big chunk this end. 249 250 00:10:59,958 --> 00:11:01,318 Probably want to match it about here... 250 251 00:11:01,343 --> 00:11:03,487 because I want the font to be the same width... 251 252 00:11:03,512 --> 00:11:05,701 to about there before it gets kind of skinny. 252 253 00:11:06,735 --> 00:11:07,680 What am I doing? 253 254 00:11:07,789 --> 00:11:11,390 It gets a bit thinner across here, so I'm going to tighten it up about there. 254 255 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,007 Then I want to do this little blob bit. 255 256 00:11:14,148 --> 00:11:15,343 Let's practice that. 256 257 00:11:15,531 --> 00:11:16,914 So I want to go, you... 257 258 00:11:18,515 --> 00:11:21,086 to get the kind of end piece, then just a bit further back. 258 259 00:11:21,523 --> 00:11:23,554 So I want that last part of Anchor. 259 260 00:11:23,579 --> 00:11:24,804 And, a bit further back. 260 261 00:11:24,829 --> 00:11:27,523 I'm just going to tighten it in. You might find it like, Holy Molly... 261 262 00:11:28,375 --> 00:11:32,030 goes to a, maybe a bit too big, you just chuck this in there. 262 263 00:11:33,250 --> 00:11:36,812 Awesome, I am happy enough. 263 264 00:11:36,968 --> 00:11:39,280 What I might do is trim it up, I want it to be a bit further back... 264 265 00:11:39,305 --> 00:11:44,109 so 'C' on my keyboard to get the Scissors Tool, so it snaps. 265 266 00:11:44,703 --> 00:11:46,789 'Black Arrow', grab that chunk, don't need him. 266 267 00:11:46,814 --> 00:11:48,125 I need my blob back here. 267 268 00:11:48,985 --> 00:11:50,087 It's working properly, right? 268 269 00:11:50,804 --> 00:11:52,757 I'm drawing a little circle here. 269 270 00:11:53,750 --> 00:11:57,141 Switch these guys around, it's kind of the thing I'm looking for. 270 271 00:11:58,484 --> 00:11:59,500 Zoom out. 271 272 00:12:00,125 --> 00:12:01,304 How perfect is it? 272 273 00:12:02,125 --> 00:12:03,195 It's pretty good. 273 274 00:12:04,523 --> 00:12:08,976 Cool! So, what we're going to do now is, draw these letters. 274 275 00:12:09,001 --> 00:12:12,086 You can totally easily draw these, but you draw them separately. 275 276 00:12:12,111 --> 00:12:14,987 This L, I draw with just the Pen Tool, the Curvature Tool. 276 277 00:12:15,012 --> 00:12:17,808 And I draw these two things separately using the Width Tool. 277 278 00:12:18,105 --> 00:12:21,565 I will join them up in an episode... 278 279 00:12:21,784 --> 00:12:25,331 probably two videos after this one, actually no, the very next video... 279 280 00:12:25,574 --> 00:12:28,278 where we start merging different kind of shapes... 280 281 00:12:28,303 --> 00:12:30,847 like this Width Tool, with just regular shapes. 281 282 00:12:30,941 --> 00:12:33,542 So what I'd like you to do is keep practicing on a few of these. 282 283 00:12:34,042 --> 00:12:35,706 There's a few of them that changed direction. 283 284 00:12:36,152 --> 00:12:38,800 In this case, I'll probably just do two separate lines. 284 285 00:12:38,825 --> 00:12:40,621 So I'll do one that came out of here... 285 286 00:12:41,104 --> 00:12:42,207 and stopped there. 286 287 00:12:43,042 --> 00:12:45,839 Now I need to lock it and put it on its own layer, and draw another one. 287 288 00:12:46,113 --> 00:12:47,894 That will be really easy to do with the circle. 288 289 00:12:47,919 --> 00:12:50,160 I should have done that one, would have been real easy. 289 290 00:12:50,261 --> 00:12:52,417 I did this one that kind of curves as well. 290 291 00:12:52,665 --> 00:12:54,774 But you get the idea. 291 292 00:12:55,610 --> 00:12:57,040 Some of these ones change direction. 292 293 00:12:57,072 --> 00:13:00,617 And I totally do that in one big, long line. 293 294 00:13:02,899 --> 00:13:04,730 I'd like you to practice on a few of these... 294 295 00:13:05,618 --> 00:13:07,884 and we'll finish it off in a future video. 295 296 00:13:08,118 --> 00:13:10,805 All right, on to the Shape Builder Tool, which I keep talking about. 296 297 00:13:11,070 --> 00:13:13,211 We'll finally finish off a few of these drawings in the next one. 297 298 00:13:13,430 --> 00:13:14,516 All right, let's go do it.