High that it is advanced pintu tips and tricks time in Illustrator.
Now if you are a bit afraid of the Pinto's Still you might want to check out the essentials course goes
through the pins on a lot more kind of I guess a bit more of a basic understanding.
This one here is going to jump straight into the your ok user of pintu when you want to take it to the
next level.
So get a notepad out.
There's a few little shortcuts and key combinations to make this work and go fast but yet get in there
or redraw this little doll thing and make it look like this.
All right let's get started.
OK so advance pintu time let's bring in an image so file place and let's bring in from your exercise
files.
One called pintle.
Are you pintu you out there.
Make sure it's the templates click place so it's on its own land locked and next thing is under properties.
Let's grab our Pinto from October OK.
And make sure we've got a fill of none came and will have a stroke of black.
That's fun.
One of the first things you need to do when using the pintu is turn off the smart guides or command
you turns it off otherwise it starts trying to snap to things and you lose your mojo.
Now fast track is bit of curves right.
Say I want to do this curfew bit on the bottom here.
You might be at a habit or the way you were taught by clicking once for corner clicking and dragging
for a curve and in a corner here.
Now that is fine but often you can get nice curves by using handles added additives corner point swing
and start by clicking and dragging out and I'm directing at a curve I'm dragging towards the line.
I want to go and roughly about there and then wash this.
I'm going to drag out k and I get the same line with less and good points and you'll find that if you
have just two anchor points using handles it'll just give you a nice smooth shape than you would get
from doing you know two corners with a curve in the middle.
And the trouble runs into if you want to change direction here because there's a corner right.
We knew it was a corner when we drew it.
So let brings me onto my next shortcut.
If you've got a curve where you want it to be a corner you can just hold down the key on a Mac or the
option key on a PC and you can see I've broken at there gay ending and I go up to here and I want it
to be a king still song and a click and drag out.
OK I can break it again later on remember by holding the key on a PC or the option key on a Mac and
breaking it as I'm drawing rather than kind of during it out and then having to go back to the can and
anchor point to law the white arrow case.
Just a nice handy extra trick.
So there's one way of doing it.
Let's show you even better way and the way I normally draw is with the Pinto case adding in to click
and drag out here to get this first curve click and drag out and instead of doing what we did before
as draw and then kind of come back to it and break it using the option key or the key on a PC is you
can actually do it here before you stop.
But when you get a kind of roughly where you want it to just hold down the key on a PC and an option
you want to make that same key.
OK before you let go and it actually stamps it while you're going.
OK so I'll often do this.
And drag outs that say I want to keep these curves.
I'm doing a real rough job to speed through it but I get to hear and I drag it out.
Now I hold old and just bring it up this way because I know that's going to give me roughly where I
want to go.
K I'm going to get to this point.
OK so I'll break it.
Be get to this point and I know I need it to be really long to get that existing right.
But I know that this topoint up here you can see like No-Man's kind of gone too far and you end up you'll
have your methods to fix it up.
What you can do is watch this while I'm dragging that one out.
If you hold down the command key on a Mac while the control key on a PC you can it still keeps it like
locked but it brings this handle in so that the extent is not as far.
OK so while you're dragging you can kind of SHORTEN One of them by holding the Command key.
I know these are all a little bit tough to remember but you've got your notepad next to you and you're
going to just spind whenever you're doing Unix drawing just kind of like OK you might only use two or
three of them but I find I use all of them and it just makes my pain tool experience a lot better.
Another one we're going to do is say like I get along here and I start drawing and it's just not quite
on the line right.
What I can do before I let go is this hold in the space by key and then when I moved my mouse it's moving
the anchor point.
So I can continue on to get it perfect.
All right.
That's going to be a first super shortcuts.
What I'd like you to do for your project is to kind of finish off this drawing.
You can use the pin tool or the curvature to get it which we learned in the previous video.
It's up to you.
Just get a rough drawing.
Or if it's not perfect I'd like you to do it because we're going to use as an example letter on to kind
of color it in you had a kind of color and a drawn Doring.
So and one of the things that you might run into is like how do you want to complete this.
Now you're going to get to like this point here and go OK.
Do I go down here or up this way.
OK so let's just turn it into a pile of pieces.
What I mean by that is that I'm going to grab my black are going to take off in the background and I'm
going to draw as a separate line.
We will join them all up later on using some cool tool called the shape.
Build it too.
I'm going to click and drag down here and do I want it to join and probably do and.
But you can see here I'm not worried that it doesn't Garonne completely Joines we're going to go through
and connect these up a different way.
So paintable that say this line here is this kind of hand.
K all I'm going to do is click once and just click once there OK and that's going to be enough for what
I need.
I'm going to use the Pinto now k and I got a joke.
A joke of have.
What am I do is just kind of overlapped this a little bit because do I want to get them all perfect
along there.
It becomes too hard to draw that way.
OK so we're going to overlap that and what I'll do is I'll draw that foot over the top and Will's trumped
up using the shape building tool.
So that's the kind of technique that I want you to use.
Just make sure everything is doesn't have to overlap completely like this.
It can be close like that.
We'll show you later on this is a magic way of kind of joining those up.
I'd like to go through draw all the lines that you can see here.
Don't stress too much about kids but this might be a really good time to practice your super amazing
fantastic new advanced pin tool tricks.
All right.
I'm back and I was just kind of drawing this and I thought actually there's probably more I can add
to this video because one of the big problems is let's say we're using any of the tools came using the
pintu is Vaj kind of say I want to click over here it's going to really want to join up to this tool
OK or do up to the end of these lines like on stock connecting up.
K The easiest way is so the covenantal is the word for it right.
If I start down here and I put one there one there and I want to go to this.
It really wants to kind of do stuff with us thing like oh what happened.
We were just doing this line.
OK the easiest way is just it goes zoom in real quick.
OK so I click there and joined up.
Look they are really exaggerated these lines.
You can see they all overlap.
We'll tidy that up in a future tutorial.
But click once and where it gets and here really wants to join does zoom in.
OK I'm using c'mon.
Plus you might lose control plus and just click and he gives you I guess a bigger room to kind of you
know kind of trying to guess these lines so I often do that zooming in just to kind of make sure it
doesn't join up with the lines.
Another thing that I kind of realized while I'm working is that to de-select you can go to the black
area at the V key.
I use the most is holding the command key down you can see get the black and click off in the background.
So while I'm drawing.
So let's say we can draw this line.
So click once using the courage to take once I've got just a nice curve but it keeps on joinings all
come on and just click off in the background so I can start again and again it's going to really want
to join that line.
So if I zoom right in holding spacebar to click and hold and drag this around who is going to stop you
know kind of exaggerate this and am going to try and avoid this line here.
Once one's friends go coverage to build for making weed here flowers they kick off in the background.
All right one last thing before I go is when you get to the end of your drawing because we're going
to kind of listen later on.
You kind of left with ugly looking during and Galal things overlap and it's not very nice nice little
easy trick is I'm selecting it all with my black arm holding down the key all the option here on the
MC Cain is making a duplicate.
And with it selected just give it a stroke and pick something down here as his profile.
That's something nice like this first one here with pre-fall gives it a nice kind of hand-drawn look
of bump up to three point looks a bit better.
Like I said shape a little wiggle to make this and fill it in and do some cool colors.
All right.
That's it for advanced Pindell stuff.
All right I'll see in the next video.