The Most Comprehensive Pen Tool Tutorial EVER MADE!

This tutorial is for Illustrator, though much of it is transferrable to Photoshop and other Adobe software that has the pen tool built in as well. It covers all 4 iterations of the Pen Tool, the Select Tool (black arrow), and the Direct Select Tool (white arrow). It also covers every usage of these 6 tools on Anchor Points, Handles, and Segments, along with every modifier key (Ctrl, Alt, Shift).

This is an intro to the basics of Illustrator and everything there is to know about the Pen tool.

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[jetskihernia]

Been fucking around with the adobe suite for a while but I have never seen a pen tool tutorial like this, great work man.

[mrcommentsandstuffz]

After self teaching Illustrator for the last couple of years, coming across this has been great! This is by far THE BEST Pen Tool tutorial out there!

Great work Jared!

[Bernadine]

I've been trying to teach myself the pen tool using online videos, and this is one of the best tutorials I have seen. It is very informative and helped me a lot! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and putting together this wonderful tutorial.

[matheusguifer]

I've heard a lot about this video and it has come the time when I need it. You have no idea how happy I was when I realized it had closed captions available, since I'm hard of hearing. My joy didn't last much though. At the 4 minutes mark I noticed the closed captions started having a lot of mistakes here and there. Can you, please, fix this, Jared? Not everything can be deduced from the context so these mistakes end up really making it hard to follow.

[stmpyboots]

Really great tutorial, thank you, love how you break it down.  Would love to see you do something similar on the pathfinder tool at some stage!

[boogieidm]

Great job and thank you so much. I thought I knew the pen tool, but I was very much mistaken!

[Arturcook]

thank you so much for this great tutorial

[garalancia]

Thanks so much Jared. Way too awesome!

[abombletap]

Thank You...I learned a lot from this vid.
also thank you to reddit.com for the link

[BOBOUDA]

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