Welcome to the BENCIC tool.
This is our first free form drawing tool in Illustrator.
We are going to use it in conjunction with the with tool so we create some amazing graphics.
Just like this, though, the pencil tool can be used in many ways.
I'm going to show you this way.
From there on, you can expand on it.
Now, if you want to follow along with me and I will be very nice, please.
Open pencil dash width 2.8.
Let's go for the selection tool.
I'm going to show you some the tricks here and how to navigate a file which has several Albats in this
case we have seven Albats.
So you know very well that if you select an art board, for example, click over here and you press
command or control and then press zero.
Here you are.
It will fit the outboard on your screen.
Now if you want to see all the Albats or fit all the elbows on the screen, you press option, command
or art control and then zero.
They are just over three feet, almost in window and fit all in window.
So I'm going to select the blank one now and press command zero or control zero, and we have a blank
page.
Let's start with the pencil to the pencil tool.
Just over here under the shepherd to the shepherd tool is not for you.
If you are using a mouse and a desktop, it's for the guys using, you know, the iPad and stories like
this.
So I'm going to click and go for the pencil to the shortcut is an within pencil tool.
You will find the small tool they work together.
I'm going to go for the answer to now before we start drawing, I want to do Double-Click on the pencil
tool.
I can hear you have the pencil two options and together we are going to reset it.
So you and I were doing exactly the same thing I looked like.
OK, so now to draw with a pencil toward you, simply click and drag and you draw.
Simple, very nice.
If you want to draw things like this, like grass, some kind of hair, whatever you like, it's possible
to draw with the pencil tool, of course, if you go slowly.
It's exactly the same as going fast.
OK, I went too fast, maybe in all the versions, going fast was better than going slowly, but now
it's almost the same.
So I'm going to undo and draw a simple path.
So let's do something just like this.
If I want to continue drawing, I can come nearer to the extremity anchor points, OK, like this one
and this one.
Notice how the stories disappear.
An oblique dash will appear.
It means we are going to continue from this point.
And a click and drag.
And here you are.
Its joint can do the same here.
Come back and roll from here.
This is the way to draw, but now if you want to change what you have done, for example, here I have
like a curved I don't like I want to cut it off and make a new curve.
I come to where I want to start redrawing and not as the start is going to disappear.
It means I'm pointing on the path I click and drag and make sure I join it to the other side.
Here you are.
So you can practically, you know, adjust your path the way you would like.
Here it is, not very long strokes, OK, but short strokes will do very well.
For example, we don't want this corner hard corner here.
You can click and drag and make sure you join on the path.
And here you are.
You have adjusted the path.
It's going to take some practice here, OK?
Nevertheless, when you're using a mouth, you can do some very nice drawings, by the way.
So this one I don't like.
I'm going to click here, OK, and just take it over here.
I made a nice curve somehow.
Some other things you can do, for example, you don't want this girl at all here, if you come to the
path here and you start drawing and you do not connected to the path again, notice whatever it was,
the continuity of the path has been deleted.
And here you are.
You have a new path.
For example, I want to continue from here and I want this path I've drawn on something like this.
Here you are now and notice how the path is coming up.
It is really a bit rough.
Well, there is a better way to work if you want to.
Of course.
Let's double click on the pencil draw and here you have the pencil.
Actual options.
There is the fidelity.
You make it smooth.
That's very smooth.
You keep everything else.
And here you are.
So now when I start drawing, you notice that it is smoother.
OK, I hope you notice a smoother.
So it will be quite smooth when you are drunk with the highest fidelity, which is quite good.
For example, if I select all this.
Now I use the pencil tool and try to draw a humble heart, something like this.
Here you are.
You're not.
This is quite smooth.
I can add more inside.
You notice when I draw a bath, it is selected.
And that is important because I can come back and.
Change it again, OK, and change it again if it's not selected like this one, if I draw here, I have
a new path.
So this option is just over here, keep selected.
And I think it's important that you keep it selected now.
How to smooth the path further.
There is an option here.
Option Keith to smooth tool.
I'm going to click on it, but yet we are going to go to the smooth tool so the supposed tool will actually
smooth on your path.
OK, so short strokes will do very well here to smooth and certain anchor points, if you like.
Well, it's working pretty good, you're not.
Now, if I'm in the Pensa tool.
And I'm drawing, for example, I want to move over here, I the option key that will be allowed on
the PC and here you are, you can make it smoother.
Pretty cool, right?
I mean, this pretty smooth already.
Actually, this is a how to join a path, how to edit the path, OK, just like this, or how to draw
a new path.
OK.
Just like this.
Very easy.
Now, let's do some real application.
Very nice applications.
The first one I want to show you is how to trace a face.
You are we are going to trace this face.
So nothing is the concept here.
If I want to do a face or create a face, I can really get a real face like this lady and trace her
face and play with it.
Then I have an artwork, a vector graphic, which is pretty good if you want to do a banana created
a banana.
If you want to do an apple or a car, maybe get a car, put the picture there and trace it with the
pencil tool I would see on the next video and show you how to trace this lady, among other things.