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- All right, now that we've
had our obligatory sojurn

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in the text, let's get back to what you're

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supposed to be doing in
Illustrator, which is illustrating.

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Now so far, everything
we've drawn has been

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something Illustrator can make for us.

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In real life, I can't
draw a perfect circle,

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but the robot that is Illustrator can.

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But let's say you don't
wanna draw a circle,

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in fact, you almost never
wanna draw a circle.

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You wanna draw any old thing you like.

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In which case good news,
because, in all but one of

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the following chapters,
throughout the rest of this

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entire course, that's all
we're gonna do, starting now.

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In this chapter, I'm gonna
show you how to take the things

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we've made so far, circles,
lines, stars, whatever,

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and combine them into much more elaborate

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path outlines.

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And that's a term, by the way, two words,

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one term, path outlines.

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That's what Adobe calls
every line and shape

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that you create in Illustrator.

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Path outlines, or, if you wanna
be casual, just plain paths.

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So for example, a straight line is a path,

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a circle is a path, and
then you can combine them

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together to make even more awesome paths.

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Here, let me show you how to build

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any path you might imagine in Illustrator.