In the illustrator induction we looked at the different tools at our disposal in illustrator in the tool bar. We had previously looked at how the black pointer can control a whole object whereas the white pointer can control a single anchor point. The lasso is an easy select tool for multiple anchor points. We briefly looked into the paintbrush tool as well as the pencil tool and the differences between them. With cmd + y we found that you can see objects in outline mode and use the eraser tool to draw with negative space.
We looked into how brushes change the stroke of a brush and the how to find the many many types of brushes inside illustrator.
We then went on to look at how we can create our own brushes for the brush palet by simple dragging anything we have created into the brush palet. A screenshot of the settings we can change are bellow.
Scatter brush makes multiple copies of your brush design and scatters them along the line, whereas the art brush stretches the design to fit the shape of the line.
Below is the align tool which can be used to align objects to either the art board or each other. This can be very useful when trying to create very exact designs.
We also looked at the layer tab that groups objects on invisible layers and either lock or hide them. The when clicking on an object you can see which layer it is on by the colour that outlines it. You can change this colour by double clicking on the layer in the layer tab.
