So far, we've seen how to draw some simple shapes such as a circle or a heart. Now for this lesson, I would like to get things a little bit more complicated. And we're going to be drawing the G i will show you the beats. And I would like you to follow along, more or less doing what I do. But also, I would like you to know that there is not just one single way to do things. And in a bit, I'm sure you will find your own way to just solve your issues and your problems by tracing the pencil.

So let's see it. So before we start, one very important thing to ask you is to turn off your snapping in these two areas here, just make sure every button is off. So as I said before, and you can use the grid if you want. I'm not gonna be activating it all the time here in this exercise. I'm going to preset and I'm going to assume in to get closer to this area. And as I said before, It's always better to start things if you have some straight angles.

It's always better to start there with a sharp note. I'm going now to press the Shift key to. So you see here, I'm constraining this line so it's perfectly straight. Okay, just tried to make sure you have color, such as this one I have here red, and maybe a bit of a thicker stroke. So you can make sure that you really see what you're doing. Okay, that will make things much easier.

I'm going to press number six, for example, in my, in my keyboard, and if you take a look here, this area, if I press six, I'm going to get a 60% opacity, which will allow me to see through and this way will be much easier for me to see what I'm doing if I'm going to right, you don't need to make this stroke. as thick as I'm doing it. Maybe just with two points in It's more than enough. But I mean, it's just for you, I'm doing it like this just for you to be much easier to follow and to see what I'm doing. Okay. So the next thing I'm going to do is tracing this curve here, okay?

Which would be somewhere, like here, okay? I'm going to leave there may or not. And now we have several possibilities. We can either get rid of this and transforming this into a sharp node following by clicking and dragging, like so. Or, we can just make the prediction with handles, which would be pressing our 10 command or option and commands you can move it as we saw before, somewhere here and say, okay, am I supposed to be heading somewhere here. So, just click here, and as you can see, it's just the perfect prediction, but it did.

We'll take care of this little chap no later, because it's a it's a bit sharp. Okay, now I'm going to zoom out a bit just to keep going. And now I'm going to activate my grid, what I want to do is find in this Crescent here, okay, this area here and this area here are symmetrical. So what I want to do here is fine more or less the middle points, which would be somewhere around here, probably, I can get rid of this grid again, and I'm going to click and drag. So I'm going to press the Shift key to constrain my handles. Okay.

And now just look at the ruler here, see this visual cue? Okay. So if I come down here and I want to align this node Down here with another note, all that I have to do is look in here, just follow in that ruler there. And somewhere around here it should be the right point, it's not perfect. Gonna try again. Okay, the more accurate it is, the better results you will get, obviously, so go like that bit better.

Now I cannot just by pressing Command move in this little bit quite good. Let's keep going is the same for these and the note that corresponds here. So let's look for the ruler up there. And predicted well I'm gonna have to actually pull because this is sharp note and I'm going to generate another sharp note until I drag. I still want them aligned. So I click here.

Drag something like this. Okay, now I have my handle heading here, I think it's quite a good position in order to try and let's see what happens here. It's perfect. Okay, so as you can see here, these two are absolutely horizontal, it makes sense that their trajectory is being predicted quite accurately. Okay? So I'm going to assume it again, was not perfect, but obviously now press Command n, I just adjusted a bit more.

Now that I'm closer I can see some of the later errors. Again, I press shifts. No, I activate the pencil. I have to get rid of these now to turn this into a cross node, sharp note. Now I press Shift In this perfect straight line, now I come here, and obviously I also press Shift because I'm gonna make it a bit smaller. As you can see, if I press Shift, I have see the line here, perfectly straight line.

So we click, we click one more, one more, one more pretty easy this area here. Now if you look closer, you're gonna see this that these nodes are not perfectly aligned. So I press A, I select both of the notes, and I put down a bit now they're perfectly aligned, and I can keep working. I click on the last note to make sure it's joint to them. next segment, I trace. And my best bet is going to be tracing this straight line by President holding shift on the keyboard likes so just before the next curve begins So, keep going, my next guest is going to be coming somewhere like here to make this too aligned.

And again, I use the visual cue up here, to more or less understand what I have to push in my next node. And I'm going to click in rock, like face. Perfect. Okay, now I'm going to try and predict it's good that you use both of the methods. This may be a little bit harder to use the beginning, but it's highly recommended that you understand the logic of the pen tool. So pressing option and command, I move somewhere like, here, this is pure intuition is not that I know exactly what it's going to learn, but my experience tells me that this handle has to be kind of short.

To not last as long as this one because what I want to do is just constrained my car somewhere here. So I'm going to try and maybe even shorter somewhere, they're going to try to, to align these no with the next one, and I just look there and it's not about somewhere there, just for you to see. Let's just position it here and see what happens. Okay, so there is too much of a gap here because this handle still images to go all along this way and then stop there. Coming up, so that's not what I want. Let's just choose it more clear.

Put it here, and it's gonna go upwards. Obviously, if I put it like that, it's gonna be absolutely downwards. Okay, so again, let's just put it in the middle point and try even if My drug is not going to be perfect. So my experience and your experience after trying several times, it's going to tell you that this handle has to be pretty short. And the direction has to come downwards not to match. So just leave it tangent to to the edge of the letter and come here and just by putting a bit you more or less habits, then you can just perfection it by using the modifier keys.

Let's keep going if you want to try now the other method which is getting rid of that handle. Now, let's try and position these in a way that it's aligned with the other node. Okay. I'm going to press ALT m command going to make This is symmetrical to that one. So this handle and this handle have to be pretty similar. So let's go not perfect, and I'll try a bit longer.

Almost there. I modify it a bit. Next one, which is pooling. Now I'm going to get rid of this one, I just go like exchanging both methods and then I will refine it as I show you with the wonderful corner tool, which is something that you have the beginnings to try not to abuse using, because I want you to just do things as perfect as you can. bots After some point when you control it, why not now obviously if I press A on the keyboard and click on my letter and I see some of the sharp notes that are not perfect, I can use that method I told you about the corner tool. So you go over the notes and drag in order to make them soft, inwards and outwards.

Okay, just trying to perfection them have in mind that for example, in this case, in this case, this is not getting much better. So you will have to use the handles in order to amend this curve to make it look smooth. So now we just with the color 100% opacity get rid of this stroke and we compare our nice g With the original one and I can say we did a pretty good job.