Drawing Organic Curves with Round Corners in Illustrator (Triceratops Edition)
Deke shows you how to use Adobe Illustrator's round corner widgets to drag curves and avoid having to shape them with the Pen tool.
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Dynamic Round Corners in Adobe Illustrator
Deke shows you how (and why) to use the Round Corners feature in Adobe Illustrator to make drawing faster and easier.
Illustrator Pen Tool (Triceratops) Tricks
Deke shows you exactly where to put the anchor points and place the control handles for drawing his Triceratops logo.
Designing an Animal Logo in Illustrator
Deke begins the time-traveling journey of creating a triceratops-themed logo in Adobe Illustrator.
Very Large Artboards in Adobe Illustrator
Deke explores the possibilities of the extra large artboards you can now create in Adobe Illustrator 2021.
Drawing a Universal Power Symbol in Adobe Illustrator
Deke uses some handy shape features in Adobe Illustrator to draw the universal power symbol.
Tracing an Object with the Photoshop Pen Tool
Deke shows you how to trace a pixel-based heart with the Pen tool in Photoshop in order to make smooth, artifact-free scaleable shapes.
Tracing a Specific Letterform with a Shape Tool in Adobe Illustrator 2021
Deke uses the new Snap to Glyph option in Adobe Illustrator 2021 to fill in the counters of a few O's with a relative ease that was previously hard to come by.
Illustrator 2021 One-on-One: Fundamentals Is Released (with Useful Samples Here)
The update to Deke's Illustrator 2021 One-on-One course is now available at LinkedIn Learning and we have the samples to prove it.
Snapping to a Specific Letterform in Adobe Illustrator (Using Snap to Glyph)
Deke shows you the ups and downs and in-betweens of the Snap to Glyph feature in Illustrator, that allows you to align your object with a specific letterform (and a specific part thereof).
Snapping to Letterforms in Adobe Illustrator
Deke explores Adobe Illustrator 2021's ability to snap objects into alignment with different parts of letterforms, which Adobe calls Snap to Glyph
Aligning to Point Type in Adobe Illustrator
Deke demonstrates the immense usefulness of Adobe Illustrator's new Align to Glyph features, which give you better control when aligning to point or area type.