- All right, now that we've had our obligatory sojurn
in the text, let's get back to what you're
supposed to be doing in Illustrator, which is illustrating.
Now so far, everything we've drawn has been
something Illustrator can make for us.
In real life, I can't draw a perfect circle,
but the robot that is Illustrator can.
But let's say you don't wanna draw a circle,
in fact, you almost never wanna draw a circle.
You wanna draw any old thing you like.
In which case good news, because, in all but one of
the following chapters, throughout the rest of this
entire course, that's all we're gonna do, starting now.
In this chapter, I'm gonna show you how to take the things
we've made so far, circles, lines, stars, whatever,
and combine them into much more elaborate
path outlines.
And that's a term, by the way, two words,
one term, path outlines.
That's what Adobe calls every line and shape
that you create in Illustrator.
Path outlines, or, if you wanna be casual, just plain paths.
So for example, a straight line is a path,
a circle is a path, and then you can combine them
together to make even more awesome paths.
Here, let me show you how to build
any path you might imagine in Illustrator.