Hi there, in this video we're going to redraw this whale... 1
in this weird flowery thing that I made. 2
We draw it like this, not using the Pen Tool. 3
We're going to use the new fancy improved Curvature Tool. 4
You are going to test it, you might fall in love with it, like me... 5
and you might be abandoning the Pen Tool. 6
All right, I take that back... 7
Pen Tool, I'm sorry, but you're very hard to learn. 8
And the Curvature Tool, pretty easy. 9
Let's go and learn how easy it is in this video. 10
We're going to show you the difference... 11
between the Pen Tool and the Curvature Tool. 12
We're going to focus on the Curvature Tool... 13
because probably most of you doing this advanced class... 14
has at least got the basics of the Pen Tool. 15
We'll do an advanced video right next so we can get skilled up with the Pen Tool. 16
But for the moment we're going to look at... 17
why you should give the Curvature Tool a go. 18
Now if you are handy with the Pen Tool, like I am... 19
I found the Curvature Tool like... 20
at the beginning I was like, "Ah, why do I need the Pen Tool?" 21
In fact, it's quite amazing, what it does... 22
so throughout this course, my request is... 23
just to give the Curvature Tool a go throughout this one, it's pretty cool. 24
First of all let's look at the Pen Tool, which we know, and love. 25
I'm going to draw-- we're going to start with this guy on the right here... 26
we're going to draw the basic. 27
Let's say I want to draw this circle. 28
'Pencil' is click and drag, for a curve. 29
And, click and drag for a curve. 30
Click and drag for a curve. I'm trying my best circle, okay? 31
It's okay? 32
Let's do the same thing with the Curvature Tool. 33
Now, Curvature Tool, you just click once for a curve. 34
You can see, once I've kind of finished my first-- 35
I've got more than two points here, it starts doing an ugly curve. 36
So I'm going to click another time... 37
and another time, roughly in the corners here. 38
You can see, just does, by default, nicer curves. 39
Let's have a look at some of the pros and cons for the Curvature Tool. 40
Remember, the circle here, we click once for a curve. 41
Let's say we want a corner, so what we do is we double click for a corner. 42
Along here, there's a long big curve here... 43
about half way along, I click once, because I want a curve. 44
Then you can see, once I start dragging out... 45
I get roughly where I need it to be, and I can... 46
Remember, this is a corner point as well, because it's a change of direction... 47
I double click. 48
Up here, I've got two kinds of curves. 49
There's one going this way, and one bending around. 50
So I want one there for a curve, and maybe one there for another curve. 51
Messed it totally, that's all right.. 52
I'm back to the beginning here. 53
This is the way, but when it joins back up... 54
you just click once to kind of finish it off... 55
whether it's a corner to a curve. 56
Just kind of click once to join it all back up. 57
What you'll first of all notice is that it's a pretty sweet curve, right? 58
It needs some adjustments. 59
You can adjust it-- and the cool thing about adjusting it... 60
this is probably its biggest, awesome trait. 61
Watch this, if I start dragging this one... 62
what you'll notice is... 63
can you see the line underneath here. 64
A kind of pointer, watch this line while I'm dragging this top one. 65
Can you see, it actually flexes. 66
So it's not only adjusting this one... 67
it's actually adjusting the next one to continue a nice smooth curve. 68
I can drag this one and try and get it a little nicer. 69
Drag this one in. Don't know what I'm trying to do. 70
I guess, the difference would be is... 71
if I try to do that in the Pen Tool... 72
so, Pen Tool, I'm going to click once for a corner. 73
I click and drag for a curve. 74
Click once, it's not going to be too bad. 75
It's not a hard shape to do. 76
I should have given it a Fill, click once. 77
The difference is, if I grab the White Arrow... 78
and start adjusting this... 79
you can see, it does nothing to affect this line here. 80
You end up with this kind of, really kind of... 81
Well, just not as balanced a curve. 82
So I find that the Curvature Tool just ends up... 83
making my drawings look a bit nicer. 84
Now if you love this control with all these handles... 85
never fear, they are still here. 86
Watch, I can click on these corner points, they are still here. 87
They're just kind of hidden from you. 88
Remember, the biggest thing is that, if I change this one... 89
it influences the one above it, so things just end up looking nicer. 90
So remember, double click for a corner, click once for a curve... 91
double click for a corner. 92
No, don't double click. 93
So if I accidentally do it, that's fine, I can double click it again... 94
and it goes back to being a curve, so, if it's a curve... 95
double click, corner, double click, curve, kind of toggles it in and out. 96
I go back to here, and it's a curve, no it's a corner, double click. 97
I should get rid of the Fill here, I will, for this one. 98
And there's a curve, so click once for a curve, click once again. 99
You can just see, pretty nice curves. 100
What we're going to do now is redraw this whale. 101
We're going to use the Curvature Tool. 102
We're going to work our way around... 103
nothing really new from what we've done here... 104
but this is the shape we're going to use for this class. 105
So, this is the one I really want you to do. 106
If you skipped this one, I really want you to do this shape. 107
Let's draw it together. 108
So double click for a corner. 109
And half way down here, click once for a curve. 110
We're going to adjust it later on. 111
And I'm going to double click for a corner. 112
This Fill here is driving me mad. 113
I'm going to go to 'Properties'... I'm going to say 'no' Fill. 114
I should have done it at the beginning, that's what I said I was going to do. 115
So, curve, click once... 116
double click. 117
Clicking once for a curve, double click for a corner. 118
This curve's just kind of slight here... 119
so I'm going to click once about here. 120
Maybe once in there, and you're like, "What is it doing?" 121
It's not till you go out here, to where-- 122
I'm looking for the change of direction, because that changes there, right? 123
So I want kind of half way in there, I'm looking for the Apex, really. 124
So I'm going to click once, click once. 125
Man, look how good it's looking. Double click. 126
If you're like me, the Pen Tool, you get good... 127
but you've got to really fiddle with it afterwards... 128
using Direct Selection Tool to get any sort of... 129
lovely curves through here. 130
This one has a slight depth, so click once. 131
It has a bit of a corner there, click once. 132
And double click for a corner. 133
It's coming out pretty nice. 134
I do say so myself. Double click. 135
Click once, double click. 136
The curve, I probably want it here. 137
Then, this one here, probably can't go all the way out here... 138
so I'm going to double click for a corner. 139
That's probably what I'm going to have to tidy up. 140
So double click. There's a slight curve here, click once. 141
Give it a Fill color. 142
I'm going to give this one a Fill color of blue, just because it's a whale. 143
I'm going to continue with drawing this now with the Curve Tool. 144
Let's have a look at adjusting this thing. 145
There are times when you're like, actually just didn't do what I want. 146
You can grab the Curve Tool, and go in, and go-- 147
actually this guy just needs to be maybe up here. 148
I can try and get him to blend a bit nicer. 149
They'll work, or I can undo, and grab my White Arrow. 150
The Direct Selection Tool, grab this guy and go... 151
what's going on here, and go... 152
this guy needs to be coming straight out of the back of this one. 153
And this one needs to go a bit higher. 154
So it's up to you how you best want to do it... 155
but let's continue on. 156
Double click, click once. 157
Double click. 158
Click once. 159
Pretty nice. 160
Double click for a corner. 161
Click once, double click. 162
I'll show you one little trick, because this is getting boring. 163
It's great, but let me show you a little trick you can do. 164
Say you want these-- 165
For some reason I draw these leafy things all the time... 166
if you've watched me in my tutorials. 167
Leafy kind of things. It's meant to be water, by the way. 168
But what I can do is... 169
see this guy here, I can grab the Curvature Tool... 170
and remember, if I want to change it from a curve to a corner... 171
remember, if I get it wrong, I just double click it. 172
I find that's kind of cool. 173
Especially that one, that kind of leafy shape, with one end pointing. 174
Especially if it's balanced, it's quite tough to do. 175
Now if you're getting bored you can skip to the next video now. 176
I'm going to delete that. I'll just go double click. 177
Click once, double click. 178
Click once, double click. 179
Click once, double click. 180
I'm going to zoom in. 181
Double click. 182
Curve, 183
Double click. 184
One click, double click. 185
Click once, double click. 186
Driving myself mad now, click once. 187
I'm just getting to the inside, but that's okay. 188
You get the idea, right? 189
How awesome are we? 190
This one needs a little bit of adjusting. 191
I'm going to grab the Curvature Tool, and say, you my friend, come down a bit. 192
If yours is snapping... 193
that's one of things, it's like... 194
"Why are you doing all of these things, and snapping?" 195
There's two ways of getting around that, you can zoom right in... 196
so if I hit 'Command +', or 'Control +' on a PC... 197
so zooming right in gives you a lot more control. 198
You can see, it's not trying to snap now... 199
just because it's kind of filling in the screen... 200
or you can go to 'View', and turn 'off' Smart Guides. 201
I use this shortcut all the time. 202
It's 'Command U' on a Mac, or 'Control U' on a PC. 203
And if you're further out, it's not going to try and snap as much. 204
So I'm going to turn it back on, the Smart Guides, and do some adjustments. 205
The only thing I need is my eyeball. 206
Last of it. 207
I'm just going to give it a 'Fill', draw my eyeball. 208
And you're like, "He's not going to use the Curvature Tool, is he?" I am. 209
You should use the Ellipse Tool... 210
but we're proving a point, click once, click once... 211
click once, click once. 212
It's not a perfect circle, but it's not what I'm looking for, for this guy. 213
I'm just looking for a little bit of weirdness. 214
The Stroke... 215
I've got a Stroke and a Fill, and I'm going to put this one back in. 216
I'm going to grab the 'Black Arrow'. 217
I'm using the Eyedropper Tool just to steal color from him. 218
That my friends is the Curvature Tool. 219
In the next video, let's get into some super advanced Pen Tool stuff. 220
If you're like me, and you're good at the Pen Tool... 221
try the Curvature Tool at least for this class. 222
I bet you, you're going to find some nice things about it. 223
All right, I'll see you in the next video.