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- Now at this point, you may be wondering

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if there are any other
line tools on this tour,

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and the answer is yes,
starting in this movie

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with the Arc Tool.

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So, I'll go ahead and switch back

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to my single column tool box.

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And you can get to the Arc Tool,

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either by clicking and holding
on the Line Segment Tool

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and then selecting the Arc
Tool from the flyout menu,

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or if you have your Line Tool set up

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as an independent tool bar,

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you can go ahead and click on the Arc Tool

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without bringing up a flyout menu.

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All right, now the Arc
Tool draws smooth arcs

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as you can see right here,

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but what it's really doing
is drawing quarter ellipses.

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And by an ellipse, I mean
a circle that's wider

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than it is tall or taller than it is wide.

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And so in this case, I've
drawn one quarter of it

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and I could start over here
and draw another quarter.

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And then, I could start,
let's say right here,

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and draw this quarter
and start here and draw

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another quarter like so.

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And so, you can end up drawing

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these, kind of, egg shapes if you want to.

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Another way to work is to press
the shift key as you drag,

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in which case you will
create a quarter circle.

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And again, you've got to
keep that shift key down

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the entire time.

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I'll go ahead and press the backspace key

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or the delete key on the
Mac to get rid of that guy.

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And, I also want to delete
this ovoid right here,

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which I'm going to do,

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not by switching back
to the black Arrow Tool.

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I can do that, of course,
but you can always access

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the last used Arrow Tool on the fly,

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just by pressing and holding the ctrl key

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or the cmd key on the Mac.

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Though because the black Arrow Tool

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was the last tool I used,
that's the one I'm seeing

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and now I'll just go ahead
and partially marquee

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those four arcs and then
I'll press the backspace key

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or the delete key on the
Mac to get rid of them.

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And notice, as soon as
I release the ctrl key

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or the cmd key on a Mac,
I return to the Arc Tool.

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All right, you can also do that thing

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where as you're dragging, you
press and hold the alt key

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in order to create the arc
from the center outward,

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so that's an option as well.

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I'll go ahead and delete that guy.

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And then I'll show you that you can click

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with the Arc Tool to bring up
the Arc Segment Tool Options

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dialogue box, which allows you to specify

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where the arc is starting, so in our case

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it's going to start from
the upper left corner

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but you can start from the
lower right if you want to,

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just by selecting a
different point right here.

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I'm going to start, I
think, from the upper left

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because I clicked around this area,

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and I'll change the length of the x-axis

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that is, how wide it is.

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Let's say to 200 points and
it'll change the length of the

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y-axis, that is how tall
it is, to 250 points.

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Notice that, you can draw a
closed shape if you want to,

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which is going to give
you a slice of a pie,

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as you can see if you click OK.

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So notice, that goes ahead
and closes the shape like so.

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Problem is with that, that from now on

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that's the way the Arc
Tool is going to behave.

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So, if I draw another arc,

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it's going to look that way as well.

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And the only way to get
that to stop happening

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is to click with the Arc Tool

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and change type to Open instead.

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Base Along is something
I'll show you in a moment.

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You can fool around
with it if you want to,

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but it makes more sense

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when you're drawing an arc on the fly.

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And then we have this Slope option,

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which also makes more sense on the fly.

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Fill, by the way, just goes
ahead and fills the arc

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as opposed to just stroking it.

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All right, I'm going to click OK,

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and the only reason I'm doing this

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is to get Illustrator to recognize

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that I want Type to be Open for now on,

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so I'll click OK to create that arc.

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And now I'm going to get rid
of all three of these arcs

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by pressing and holding the ctrl key

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or the cmd key on the Mac

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to get the black Arrow Tool on the fly

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and then I'll partially
marquee those shapes,

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and press the backspace key
or the delete key on the Mac

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to get rid of them.

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All right, now let's say
I draw an arc like this

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and then I draw another one like this,

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and that's not the
direction I want this to go.

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And that's that x-axis
versus y-axis thing.

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Why it makes more sense in
the context of just drawing,

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is because what you do is you
press the f key, just tap it.

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And why f, because that goes
ahead and flips the arc.

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And so, again, if I decided now

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that's not what I'm looking for,

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I can tap the f key in order
to flip it the other direction.

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Another thing you can do is
change how concave the arc is.

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So I'll go ahead and draw
one like this and notice,

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as I'm dragging, so I've
got the mouse button down,

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if I press and hold the up arrow key,

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I basically end up with
a, kind of, rounded corner

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as opposed to a fluid arc.

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And then, if I press and
hold the down arrow key,

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it starts going the other direction,

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and I can ultimately turn it
into a round corner as well

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which is not what I want.

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So what I'm going to do is
press and hold the ctrl key,

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the cmd on a Mac, marquee these shapes,

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then press the backspace key
or the delete key on a Mac

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to get rid of them and now
I'm going to actually use

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the tool by turning on the guides layer.

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Make sure your lines
layer is active, however.

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And what we want to do is
create a little bit of smoke

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coming out of this left hand smoke stack.

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And so, the first I'm going
to do is click with the tool,

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just to reset this Slope option.

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I don't want it be -100,

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I want it to be its default value of 50

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so we get a nice, smooth arc

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at which point I'll click
OK, just to create an arc

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at a weird point, that's fine,

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I'll just press the backspace
key or the delete key on a Mac

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to get rid of it.

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And now, I'm going to start dragging

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from the top of the smoke stack.

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You should see that vertical green line

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in the word intersect telling you

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you have your cursor in the right place.

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And then, go ahead and
drag up and to the left.

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If your arc's going in a wrong direction,

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then you can press the f
key to flip it, like so.

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I want my arc to be 109.5 points wide.

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That doesn't really matter
because that's taken care of

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automatically when you snap
to the vertical guideline,

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but you do want to care
to make your height value

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90 points if you want
to get the same effect

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that I'm getting which
is this line right here.

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All right, now I want to
scoot this line up ten points,

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so I'm going to press
the v key to switch back

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to my black Arrow Tool

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and then I'll press the enter key

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or the return key on a Mac to
bring up the Move dialogue box

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and I'm looking for what I have,

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which is a horizontal value of zero points

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and a vertical value of -10 points,

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at which point I'll click
OK in order to accept that

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very small movement.

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And now, we want a really thick outline.

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Make sure you're filled, by the way.

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Your first swatch, up
here in the control panel,

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is set to none.

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That is to say, you
should see a white swatch

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with a red slash through it.

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Your stroke should be black

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and we're looking for a line weight value.

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I'm just going to select
it and change it to 30,

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a big, whopping 30 point line weight,

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which is going to give
us this effect here.

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At which point, I'll
just go ahead and click

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off the path outline to deselect it.

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And that's how you use the Arc Tool

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in our case, to draw
the very first segment

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in our looping smoke
here inside Illustrator.