Pro-Tips: Pen Tool and Shapes in Adobe Illustrator with Jacob Paris

Pro Tip: you only need to know the pen tool and shape tool to build your character in Adobe Illustrator. When building out your characters, convenience, and readability can save you so much time with your design process. Join Graphic Designer Jacob Paris as he covers the accessibility of character design in Adobe Illustrator and how he builds characters with these two simple tools! Watch as he brainstorms his character by using Adobe Firefly!

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00:00 Start
01:45 Using Firefly to get started
03:10 Cartoon clock prompts in Firefly
04:13 Basic shapes and setting stroke sizes
07:40 Creating eye options for the character
10:50 Line economy with curvature pen tools
13:25 Shortcut options and transform settings
17:20 Prepping for live paint or paint bucket tools
19:02 Adding the clock bells
21:59 Adding the clock face - working with shapes
24:35 Adding the eyes to the face - reflect tool
26:06 Wrap up

[dawn]

Easy to follow. Thx for not talking hyper fast like most. Great tutorial!

[VegasGuy]

I really enjoyed the commentary on your thought process as you work. It was helpful in seeing where I may consider some changes in process for expediency in designs.

[VegasGuy]

With AI being so literal, sometimes we have to think like AI thinks. For example in your example with the car, a prompt like “Cartoon car with legs running down the road” probably would have generated a closer example of what you described wanting afterwards.

I suspect AI will eventually become more adept at understanding what we mean as it progresses, and it will be interesting to see how humans prefers in how we interact with AI.

All that said, good video, and thanks for the great content.