How to use the Pencil and Smooth Tools in Illustrator

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The pencil and smooth tools come in really handy when you need to draw or redraw parts of your graphic - in fact I use them every day! They're super easy to use if you just know the basics.

Here's the font used in this tutorial - Grand Hotel:

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5 years later and your videos are still phenomenal and relevant. Thank You for this one!

evadesignagency

Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much for this! I love how you mention the keyboard commands too for those of us unfamiliar!

dkarcade_

First of all thank you so very much for posting these tutorials! I just found your channel, and I realize this is several years old, but let me say OMG.... I have had AI for a few years now, but I do not use it much. I am a crafter and got into design because of that. Cricut and Silhouette Design programs have always been a hassle for me, so I tried AI. I used it a lot at first, but then stopped this past year so I am rusty. I say that to say I never saw any tutorials that showed how to do what this video showed and I am having a horrible time cleaning up an image of words LUCKY MAMA and I am like I can think of A MILLION projects I wish I had known about these tools! I am so excited to have found your channel. Going to watch more now. Thank you!

danniegrl

Hands down the best Pencil tool tutorial I have found - thank you

lynneholman

I appreciate the useful information without the silly fluff that others offer. This channel looks like a great place to brush up on skills and learn new ones. THANKS!!!

charlesjosef

Oh my goodness. I did not know you could use the pencil tool for this! This completely changes my typography game!!! Thank you 3000!!!

jfosterdesigns

Wow, this is the clearest tutorial on the pencil tool. Thank you

duplinestephanus

I always use the pencil tool but never knew about the option key/smooth tool shortcut (in fact I forgot the tool even existed). This is going to be such a big help :)

Mikeyalbum

The best Youtube channel.. You taught me a lot, dear Anne.. Endless thank you..

cagdastopcu

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I’ve been frustrated for days

tbmadeitt

Awesome tutorial Anne, thank you! A quick comment about 5:50... I believe the Cmd-E shortcut is set to toggle GPU performance by default in Illustrator, not to expand objects. However, I love your idea of using Cmd-E to expand objects since that's something I do all the time. Definitely going to remember that one. Thanks!

thrice

one of the best explanation on the subject, complete and simple. 👍👍👍

DonatoGreco

thanks for all the help. i love shortcuts and getting to the point. So your advice was priceless :)

DolbroDan

Amazing! Thanks! I usually either use the pen tool and take some time to smooth out the design manually or the paint brush tool, at a preliminary stage, which doesn’t connect paths so well.

isabellewest