In this exercise students will understand and practice the pen tool and draw the following objects (i.e Emojis & Ribbon Banners )

Pen Tool

Pen tool is regarded as one of the most important and powerful tool for graphics designing. It is used to create.

  • Lines
  • Shapes

Add Anchor Point Tool

Add Anchor Point Tool  is a sub tool of pen tool. It is used to add anchor points on a vector path. A vector path is made of two or more points, which are called anchor points or stopping points.

Delete Anchor Point Tool

Add Anchor Point Tool  is also a sub tool of pen tool. It is used to remove or delete  anchor points from a vector path. 

Anchor (Convert) Point Tool

An Anchor point can either have handles or no handle. If an anchor point has handles, these handles can be used to control the curveness of  the vector paths which are attached to it.  So the conver point tool can be used to delete the handles from an anchor point. OR add handles to the anchor point. So in simple words, Anchor point tool converts

  1. a curved anchor point into angled (Cornered) anchor point.
  2. an angled (Cornered) anchor point to curved anchor point 

Curvature Tool

Curvature tool is simple version of Pen tool. It is used to create curvy path and straight lines (alt & click).