Drawing with the Pen tool, Pencil tool & Brush tool Ep10/19 [Adobe Illustrator for Beginners] 

To get the full learning experience and follow along: Get the FREE PDF course index and the downloadable project folder from the course overview video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IBouhf4seWQ.html Enjoy!

Mr Gareth David, you deserve an award for empowering young people around the world who want to be designers. I am from Nigeria and you have no idea how difficult it is to acquire this kind of skills here. With poor and expensive internet connections, learning skills online is quite difficult. But with a lot of patience and determination I was able to download all episodes of your tutorial (Hope you don't mind) and the accompanying project files. With the skills I learnt I have been able to earn a little extra cash to sponsor my self through college. My dad lost his job and in this economy and at his age it's very difficult to get a job. So thanks Mr Gareth and may God continue to bless you! Keep up the goodwork.

You are the best teacher online who could teach any dumb person to master illustrator. Thank God, i found your tutorial online . Thank You for your best teaching videos.

Hey Mr. Gareth, am so happy beyond expression. Wherever you are just know that you have touched a life miles away. You are the best teacher and May God bless you.

I actually can't thank you enough for these tutorials. I have been offered some graphic design work by a friend who is involved in a multi million dollar web project... Having an illustration degree but no experience, I accepted the job, but had only ever used traditional methods of producing work so was frankly going blindly into the graphic design world. Long story short you've helped save my career with these tutorials!! Many thanks! :)

at first i was afraid to use the pen tool. after learning from your tutorial, pen tool is now my fevourate tool

Dear Gareth David, You are blessing lives in the world. You have made some one like me self reliant. I pray that you achieve all Heavenly Father wants you to achieve here on earth. You are the best teacher I have interacted with. Thank you so much for this tutorials. I will help others with all I have learnt here.

From zero knowledge, I've gotten comfortable using AI after watching your videos in 3 days. Thank you very much for the valuable and precise guide videos! Very much appreciated!

Having actual exercises incorporated into a tutorial is so amazing. Thank you so much.

WOW ! Your tutorials are super professional and very well put together, the best I've ever seen on RU-vid by far ! Your amazing. Bravo . . . .

A big and sincere THANK YOU for all the tutorials. World would be much better place if there are more people like you Sir!

This really is an amazing series, thanks so much! The Adobe tutorials are confusing and unimpenetrable for me but you make every seem straightforward and easy and learning feels organic!

You are the absolute best -- a born teacher. Thank you for everything you've done for us aspiring designers.

Thank you sir, you deserve hundreds thousands of views and millions of subscribers.

You have no idea how much you have helped me. One of my best teacher ever!!!!!!

You are a wonderfull teacher! I deeply appreciate your effort. This serie of tutorials is the best I've ever seen. Thanks and thanks again!

Absolutely world class instruction. So impressive.

This is, by a long shot, the best tutorial I've done. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU!!! you are a LEGEND :D your channel deserves a million subscribers. so professional!!!

Thank you for these tutorials, it's because of them why I'm doing a great job turning my art into fantastic art pieces.

When align black circle with white if you dont want to move the black:select black and white then click another time in the black for hold in position then click align horizontal and vertical for move only white in center position.Thanks for your tutorials!!

WoW! After eons of trying to learn Ai, I GET IT AT LAST! Every student needs an instructor just like you... THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Finally the mysteries of the pen tool have been explained. You are a very generous contributor. Thank you Mr Tuts

You're really the most amazing teacher I'd ever seen, thank you so much

Such an amazing quality of tutorials out there for free. Wow. I have seen pathetic e-courses on websites asking hundreds of dollars to enroll. May God Bless you sir and may He give some sense to 38 people who have unliked the video

For anyone who can't see their handles and anchor points for the Direct Selection Tool, press Ctrl+H (Windows) and cmd+H(Mac). i had this problem and thought that i'd share to you guys.

I like how he takes special care to mention the little detail regarding stroke profile direction at 31:47, despite the fact that most people might not face that issue. These are extremely well-prepared and well-thought videos!

I am totally new to Illustrator, I can't believe how much I learned by watching just a few of your videos!

Just *WOW!* Thanks to your very informative _(and very well compact)_ videos, I now understand a lot more about these advanced graphic design tools which have otherwise remained esoteric to me for so many years.

These tutorials made me fall in love with illustrator, something I never thought possible mainly because of the pen tool, now I feel like a master. THANK YOU.

These videos are amazing! I was struggling with Illustrator and thanks to your videos I was able to start using it with confidence! People like you make me feel so grateful for living in an era where good content like this is so easily accessible to anyone who wants to learn!

You know I got up to lesson 9 not really knowing where I was going with this and thinking I was spending a lot of time not getting very far. Then lesson 10 happened I I feel like it all came together in that lesson. Great stuff really appreciated.

you are a good teacher! im starting to love illustrator now.

I'm in a Graphic Design course, just started, never used Illustrator, a lot of the class have done a pre course in the college, everyone is streets ahead, I'm already behind, the teacher is so fast, I have missed steps, and he's gone too far to ask then, so I'm sitting there lost, this is so helpful, disheartened looking around the class and everyone is well ahead of me and I don't know how to get there because I have missed simple things like this! The shortcuts especially! Thank you so so much!!

From the 10 minute video's this was quite a surprise, I'm now halfway! Thanks so far!

I'm using adobe Illustrator for a while but I was looking for a good tutorial that will help me knowing the program perfectly. Well, I found! Thank you for all these videos. This is the first episode that I see and I'm very impressed, it was very fun lesson and I also learnd some new stuff. Got to go, I have another episode to see !

Incredible tutorial so far. Really appreciate how you've laid it all out from the basics.

Thank you so much Sir, You are the best on the internet!

MY BEST TUTOR EVER, BE BLESSED DAVID.

I can't thank you enough for such professional tutorials .

can't thank you enough for these tutorials _ i always find illustrator hard and i always panic and feel i will never be able to learn it but you made it smooth and easy for me to go even further in this software, i shared it with all of fam and friends whos looking to learn illustrator from scratch, thank you soo much, David, you are the best.

I just love you and your teaching, Gareth David.

I'll really have a hard time using these tools before but now thanks to you I now understand fully and easily. Thanks and Godbless

thank you man you are the boss of tutorials!!keep up the BRILLIANT work you are doing!!

I teach my boss how to draw in Illustrator, now i am even smarter. thanks for this very helpful tutorial, subbed!

Cannot tell you how grateful I am for this!

This is by far the best video I've watched so far in this series!

Covered every single thing in such clear and soothing accent! got an apprentice here

Just stopping by to thank you and echo the previous positive comments regarding this series. It's fantastic, to the point and really easy to follow (or at least as easy as it can be). Well played on making this resource free and offering the donation option. Consider it used. Thanks again, from Derry, Ireland.

You're the source of inspiration to me. I had no passion in this software but with your tutorials, I'm almost an expert in it. Thank you so much for dedicating your busy time to produce such outstanding work. May the Lord/Halla bless you so much and how I wish I could meet you one-on-one. #fromkenya

You are a freaking amazing teacher!!!

Thank you sir. This is a very good video and you achieve what my teachers wont achieved,to keep things entertaining !

I've been Looking for such tutorial since ages...thanks a million

Bro this is amazing. I have no more words to say.

Thanks for the tutorial. It helps me discover the uses of some tools I've never tried before and also to refresh on the basics in case I missed out some stuff. I wish to add another method in which you can remove part of a handle. You can activate the "Convert anchor point tool" (Shift+C on Win) then click the end point of a handle that you wish to remove. This method will prevent you from messing up the other handle as you try to move the current handle to the anchor point to remove it.

WOOW YOU SIR ARE AMAZING! Thanks a lot for your efforts in doing this!!! Autonomous learners like me REALLY appreciate your work!! Best videos I've ever seen... Seriously.

Seriously! Thank you so much! i don't think learning Illustrator would have been as much fun had if it hadn't been your videos :D

I really want to thank you for sharing this amazing tutorial, it is just perfect

Sir, you are great these courses are still so useful even after four years

I had only known how to use the pen tool. The pencil and smooth tools will make drawing so much easier! Thanks for the tutorial. :)

wow i learned so much in these 10 tutorials ,especially this 32 min video. thank you!

You've just fully changed my life. Thank you so much for this. You're definitely gonna go to heaven even if you don't believe in stuff like that.

I am so glad I found this. Thank you so much for this! I'm entering college next year and I want to have some foundations to make things easier. Again, Thank you!

For years I have been ignoring the pen tool in photoshop after using it this much in ilust I finally feel comfortable with it

Oh man thank you! Your tutorials are the best I have found for the pen tool! Really appreciate your time putting these together! :)

Thanks for this fun tutorial. You drew the kanji in correct strokes, that's amazing! Keep it up!

the BEST teacher ONLINE EVER!!!!

I never skip ads before 30 seconds have passed, least I could do as a thank you.

Thank you . Your all tutorials are The best

You are absolutely amazing. I'm a big fan! Thank you so much!

You're such an amazing teacher! You're so good, it hurts lol

It feels like your tutorials are piracy material, because the contents are superb quality and yet free lol ^^ thanks man you are absolutely awesome!

You are a good teacher. Thank you!

Just give your stroke a little curve. Thank you so much for these tutorials, they are life changing.

God of tutorials.

These videos are incredible. I hate watching commercials, but I watch them in the hopes it helps you get paid..

Learning by the minute! Thank you for this awesome free tutorial!

Is it just me or his voice is reallllllllllyyyyyyy good compared to other tech tutorials found here in yt?

hi tastytuts. first off, thank you for creating such a wonderful tutorial. i really enjoy ur outstanding tutorials. however, i think windows 8 users will have this error "this file cannot be found" when opening this specific file because this specific file is saved under the project folder name "10 - DRAWING  PEN, BRUSH, PENICL, SMOOTH TOOL". thats because the folder name itself contains comas and symbols. thus windows and adobe system cant recognize that causes adobe to give such error message "this file cannot be found".. Solution: Rename that folder into "PEN"

Just absolutely wonderful, complete....and awesome!!..thank you!

Thank you so much for these tutorials! They are the absolute basic but that's exactly what I needed having just started looking into AI.

Thanks for the lesson, I never learn AI before but after I watch your video I got a lot of ideas.

As a beginner I found the click and drag technique more simple

Thank you Mr. Gareth 🙏

Just Awesome. Excellent David.

Oh my!!!! U are an amizing teacher!!! I'd do only your r\tutorials!!!!!! please do mooooore!

Thanks a lot! Your video lessons are precious!!!

Thank you very much for this entire course! One thing to note(I'm in 2020) the Default option for the pencil tool is too smooth. Doubleclick the pencil and change the fidelity slider to the left

you make this look really easy. Thanks

Thank you Mr. Garith David

love from INDIA...thank you very much sir..... :-)

You are a fantastic teacher! Thank you so much for these!

Thanks so much for the tutorials excellent work, i'm half way through.

I'm first time working with the pen tool and it goes perfect for me. :)

sir..your the best Teacher.

Sir I get this episode's file with version cc as a *Compressed folder error*....FOR ALL OTHER IT CAME WELL AND I HAVE BEEN PROGRESSING WELL...Just for this sir..what can I do...kindly help me sir

for more difficulty, use pen tool to do all the shapes. thats when you get proper mastery as the vector paths REALLY help out, especially when you can revisit paths, and create stroke layers and fill layers, saves loads of time

Thank you so much for this!!!!! This is super helpful! I've never used Illustrator before so I was sooooooo super lost! This is so nice!

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