Pen Tool HACK - Adobe Illustrator

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this really helps man!

That’s the way I’ve always worked the pen tool. I had always noticed how the handles looked on circles and tried to emulate that in my drawing. I never knew how far out the handles should go a lot of times though. But this was great reassurance that I wasn’t the only one that tried to draw shapes the same way Illustrator does!

yah. somethings always off.. Thanks. Now weird shape gone!

could we do the same thing in vectornator?

Great video. Welcome to my saved videos for future use folder

Loved it,made it so much easier

This is a weird GIMP

veri good

you used this rule only to first letter of whole logo, the rest of letters are just normal curves without that gold rule xDDD

Vital info, thanks!

How did you get the nice round handles? (instead of the standard tiny squares)

Thanks for a wonderful tutorial!

Some of us use Photoshop so it would be nice if sometimes you also show how it would work on photoshop too

I’ve watched this video about 4 times now to try and absorb as much info as I can :|
Love your videos and I’m very appreciative for them!

OMG amazing!

The best explanation! Finally

This is a game changer for me. My lines have improved greatly just by doing this. Thanks for this!

😍🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 omg sir ❤️

Thanks, I've been struggling with the pen tool - this was extremely helpful!

this video helped a hell of lot !!!!!!!! subscribed and thumbs up bro! Thanks

sir can u give some project file

I am pretty new to Illustrator, only knew photoshop. I have always struggled with the pen tool! I think I get it now!!! Thank you so much!

Hands down the most useful video on the subject!

king. thank you

Hey thank you for such a good explanation, I wonder at my side why handle for only one anchor point is showing. Like I made an anchor point using pen tool, after some distance placed another anchor point, hold and shifted to make a curve. But when using selection tool it only shows me one handles of second anchor point. Any idea? Using Adobe Illustrator 2022

thank you in advance.

Professor Patterson! I appreciate your ability to explain the pen tool in layman's terms. This makes sense. I have struggled often with many unnecessary node adjustments my entire career. This was TRULY a golden tip. Thank you for sharing.

Very nice content. I was a tattoo artist and illustrator for 12 years now getting into some graphic design. Never understood why the app was called illustrator not photoshop design. I just use my iPad Pro and use procreate but finally giving AI a go. Very helpful

Fantastic tutorial and explanation! Easy to follow with the explanation for why - and what to look for!

WHY TALK A LOT !! IT IS VERY BAD.

Also helps using french curves when sketching

This is incredible stuff! Subscribing because I've never seen a technique communicated and presented so clearly

I wounder how you can make the anchor point in your AI change color and size

I have been using the pen tool since 1988 and I have gotten really good at it. In fact I got so good that I can draw very easily draw with it. Problem is when Illustrator started to fix the pen tool it became confusing to me. So I started using the pen tool in Photoshop. Now I need to go back to Illustrator and the pen tool confuses me. Is there a way to get the pen tool to work the same in illustrator as it does now in Photoshop? Or can I just import the paths from Photoshop to illustrator?

Oh my god. Can you do this is Photoshop?

Brilliant..!

inspiring, thank you. ❤

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

Finally thank you very much

OMG! Wish Id known this when I was in school for design; I always HATED the pen tool. Nobody explained it right!

I wish this video popped up the first time I touched the pen tool. I've been arting for like a decade now and been doing more and more vector with every year, but I'm still so clumsy and basic at it, but knowing there's optimal places to stick the little pieces MIGHT HAVE HELPED SHEESH!
Thank you. :)

And YT's algorithm is showing me this now 😑 well, better late than never. Awesome tutorial! 👏👏👏👍 Promptly subscribed.

And YT's algorithm is showing me this just now 😑 well, better late than never. Awesome tutorial! 👏👏👏👍 Promptly subscribed.

You're kidding, right? The whole tutorial is about placing anchor points on the extreme point of the curve, and placing handles horizontally and vertically, and finally, at the end of the video, you show an example where almost no anchor point or handle is positioned that way. Sorry Will, this is no hack at all

The endpoints you are referring to are called the extrema. The far extremes where the anchor point lies in balance. It’s a mathematical term.

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Awesome. I really never used it like this earlier. It helped a lot. Thank you so much!!

mind blown! thanks.