How to MASTER the Pen Tool LIKE A PRO!

[@ForeverDansky]

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[@gostavoadolfos2023]

Thanks Dan, I work as a nurse and your channel helped my POD business a lot, you can't imagine how much pride abd joy, I feel when someone buys my art.

[@ForeverDansky]

You’re welcome Gostavo 😊

[@beintouch99]

To the person who reading this, do not give up on your dream. One day you will make it. Consistency is the key to success.

[@micdrop_army]

You have no idea how much I needed to hear this thankss you made me happy😄🤞🏻

[@havc9487]

Thanks.. I'll try my best to achieve my dream and keep my promises

[@Livethelife-IrinMariya]

Thank you.. It was much needed

[@RTCDigitalS]

Thank you for the positive comment I needed it ❤

[@zionn184]

Needed this

[@shahiferdous]

To all the beginners out there if there's alternative use that instead of pen tool. But if you need to use it then dont get frustrated while using pen tool. Even for Experts it takes long hours to carve out something nice using pen tool. Patience is the only tip that can save you while using pen tool.

[@Sansy70]

Thank you for this comment I thought I was alone in my frustration with it! I am beginner so I needed to her this

[@danielventura7310]

Mate. Here are some tips for the pen tool: If you click and drag the first anchor point becomes a curve. If you continue and click without draging the pen you just create a straight anchor, but if you want to continue with a curve path, just hold ALT and click on that anchor and drag the cursor. Also, you are using too many anchor. Try to use less. Finally, you didnt use the anchor point tool (SHIFT C) to round the corners.

[@millthor]

Exactly, specially on the too many anchors. There was a point when I was anxious seeing how many anchors he did, made one "ok" curve, then deleted and made a less smooth one over it.

[@Ascendsmog]

Teaching the teach 😅

[@ikigai47]

Yeah this was so bad tbh it's just going to create bad habits

[@maforo85]

Too confusing

[@connecticutearlymusicfesti2694]

Love the humor in your videos, Dansky! A great bonus to the tips you provide. Thank you.

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome, thank you 😊

[@DesignWho]

I used to hate the pen tool. Now I can't live without it

[@MikeBranchBand]

Easily the most hilarious thing I've seen all day! I still suck at using the pen but I've now had laughter today, which is the next best thing! 😂

[@frhythms]

I'm learning Illustrator ... and, of course, the Pen Tool. I've finally got to the point where I'm beginning to not be so intimidated by it so, naturally, I'm practicing with it more. This is great. Thank you, Dansky!

[@ForeverDansky]

That's great to hear Angela, and so pleased the video is helpful 😃

[@Chris-d6f5g]

I'm new to Illustrator but I personally would use the curvature tool its so much faster and you can just click on an anchor point and delete it if you made too many

[@shaherbanovirus4608]

I've been finding a way to smooth out curve you teaches me best thanks alot ❤

[@techyjc]

The Pen tool can drive you insane..😂 I use the clock work method, which its really helpful. Great work!

[@abdeslembouabid2120]

Thank yoy Dansky, it's always nice to wath your vids and learn !

[@ForeverDansky]

Cheers Abdeslem 🙂

[@officialzacconcept]

Thanks dansky 🤯

[@kathresmee6204]

Hi Dansky great way of telling us loved your style really glad to discover your channel !

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks so much Kath! Welcome 😊

[@EriccsonVerschon]

To isolate and use one handle for the node: 1) Select the node. 2) Hover your cursor over the node handle you want to use. Don't click the handle yet. 3) Press the 'Alt' key. You will see a small '+' sign. 4) While still holding the 'Alt' key, click on the handle and start moving it around. NOTE: If you click the handle, then hit the 'Alt' key, Illustrator will simply duplicate that part of the path.

[@samarhossameldinahmed3814]

Thanks, that was very helpful

[@ForeverDansky]

Glad it helped 😊

[@arindamvlogg]

This person is Incredible

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you so much, very kind of you 😊

[@EverOC]

thank you so much dude you're a god

[@RichYork]

This helped immensely I use so much of Adobe suite I forget which app has which tools 🙏🏾🙏🏾 many thanks

[@swarbhanudutta6312]

Smooth tool clearly understand this tutorial

[@richardboateng3075]

Detail explanation .... Thanks

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome Richard!

[@soloharmonix]

😀😀😀🤣 thanks for this funny helpful video.

[@JerryN7970]

The trick with the pen tool is click and drag, click and drag, click and drag… if you need to have a point on one of the curves, click and drag to finish the last curve, then click back on the same point and option-drag (or alt-drag if on PC) to start a new curve in another direction.

[@cheevuriraghavvendra181]

thanks so much man

[@ForeverDansky]

You’re welcome ☺️

[@JeremyMuradesign]

Haha this is entertainment love it

[@ForeverDansky]

Aha thanks mate! 👊

[@Adouleh5]

Great information, thank you

[@ForeverDansky]

You’re welcome ☺️

[@agha8119]

excellent!

[@mdshibli1009]

Thank you

[@okorefewatchwell3105]

Here lies Danski, he gave his life for the pen tool😭 That got me 😂

[@ForeverDansky]

Haha 😂

[@akashraja8349]

9:54 you can get round corner option by clicking the point and holding the handle and dragging on the point, when handle gets disappear we get the round option

[@timmytee734]

That does not always work. Which is why this guy is showing it.

[@akashraja8349]

@@timmytee734 it always work for me :)

[@timmytee734]

@@akashraja8349 Ok, you know it all. This is a tutorial for people who struggle with this function. It's pointless for you to comment how to do it.

[@akashraja8349]

@@timmytee734 lol it is pointless for you to commemt like this 🤣 My sharing my knowledge and it can help someone but what you want to prove with these useless comments 🤐

[@timmytee734]

@@akashraja8349 This is a video tutorial that people can follow step by step. Get off your high horse you narcissistic tool. This guy is showing it great and your comment isn't helping anyone.

[@gregtasi]

9:03 Haha, I loved the Benny reference!

[@ForeverDansky]

Haha yea couldn’t resist 😂

[@wen_51]

I don't know why but watching someone else using the pen tool as bad as me is so therapeutic 😂

[@LuisTorres-rj6lh]

Thank you :)

[@Qareeb_Design]

thanks man but for changing the fill color with stroke color simple click and hold shift button plus x button then its changes it . 😍😍

[@imtseku]

what was very fun to watch 😂

[@ForeverDansky]

😂👍

[@imtseku]

@@ForeverDansky 😱 aaaa your reply made my day 🥹 I’m so happy now 🫠hohohoho

[@mamadoutraore2296]

Does this apply for 2024 too?

[@STARJAZZ7]

It's just awesome

[@askashutosh8667]

How did he thickned that pentool curves boy I am not able to in ai 23

[@ForeverDansky]

It’s from the Stroke panel/dropdown on the right side 👍

[@askashutosh8667]

@@ForeverDansky thankyou dansky

[@thehorroruniverse3338]

how do you curve it? (noob pen tool user me lol)

[@margottenenbaum9758]

I’ve always been like a dirty goblin hidden in the shadows, keeping my dark secret of not being able to properly manage the pen tool close to my heart. But watching even him struggle with this tool made me realize it doesn’t perform nicely for anyone 😅

[@KAZVorpal]

The reason it deselects everything when you choose that tool, is that Adobe is a soulless corporate bureaucracy, incapable of doing anything that makes sense.

[@simonchandler4666]

these videos are really informative and hilarious. Cheers!

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks Simon! You’re welcome 🙂

[@presencefeeling]

I tried your short. Shorts are the curse of the society. Who can learn complex things in 60 seconds?

[@colorblindcr]

Thank you for the video but there is a better and simpler way of doing it using Horizontal n' Vertical handlebars. The way you're doing creates unnecessary anchor points which in turn makes it difficult to fine-tune it.

[@adyme9420]

It's great, thanks for it. Wondering why nowhere I can find a course or bundle of course(s), with just exercises from simple to (very) complicated? Covering all tools, tricks, hacks etc. Including maybe even some of your past projects, changing/not mentioning the name of client. To have real life examples. Title example ''300; 500 or 1000 exercises which make you great/pro in Illustrator''. You practice them for months, but when done, you know you have the skill(s), due to the course's structure done with this goal. Same for Ps, Id, Pr even Ae. :(🤨

[@johnsteed9083]

Legend....

[@ChizzyNdukweN]

Did I hear Benny Productions' "There you go" spliced with yours at some point, Dansky? 😂

[@ForeverDansky]

Aha maybe… 😜

[@ChizzyNdukweN]

@@ForeverDansky Haha! 😂 Knew it!

[@alizahouani9260]

There is crop option in pictures now

[@razawanr5035]

❤❤❤

[@albertomarts.copywriter]

its our Savior, Danksy.

[@faizandhami]

great

[@md.bulbulislam5373]

😂😂😂 brilliant

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks! 😅

[@andraslippai3169]

Use Corel. The vector is way better :D

[@TrickyWoo109]

Yeah I feel your pain mate! I've been using illustrator for years and it's always been a pain in the bloody arse!!!

[@CarlosSilvaKalasilva]

😂😂😂😂 maybe is the worts path tutorial, very funny 😅

[@ForeverDansky]

Haha maybe, but it does work! 😂

[@zop_pigs7694]

SMAART GUIIIIDDEE

[@manmohansingh7838]

I only kept watching it for the laughs!

[@Miniimoviie]

would be better if you provided the materials you worked on.

[@AkashAbir]

Love From Bangladesh

[@abdiflah]

As a CorelDraw user, the pen tool in Illustrator is frustrating 😮‍💨

[@cinzabreu]

I though I would leave this video knowing how to use better the pen tool, instead i just watched you struggle through the entire thing. In my mind the struggle was just a setup for a next part of the video where you show a better method of spacing the anchor points and make things in an easier way, but then the video finished with just you doing messy work like the rest of us.

[@bboygavin]

all i got to say is.... "Astute Graphics"!!

[@PascoalGrisolia]

Lesson on pen tool Should have as background music... Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath! "... Well if it seems to be real, it's illusion For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life..." hahahahaha better... ho ho ho ho ho

[@ThaGoofyRider]

This is more like, how to struggle with the pen tool, rather then master of a pen tool. If anyone really wants to know how to use a pen tool, please use the horizontal and vertical rule with certain exceptions for all your anchor points. Im sorry dansky, but this is just bad, you are showing people the worng way... the pen tool is a very solid tool, if you keep to the rules of the tool it self

[@ForeverDansky]

I appreciate some may consider my methods technically wrong, but the reality is that these are real problems, with solutions that do work, as per the more polished example at the end of the video.

[@imtseku]

Rules put us in a box. But our work requires us to think outside the box. He did it very well hoho.

[@manmohansingh7838]

Pink banana :D

[@ForeverDansky]

Haha yea, couldn't do it 😅

[@manmohansingh7838]

@@ForeverDansky hahaha, man keep making such videos, they are informative and also fun to watch!!!!! Make one video on the most annoying features of Illustrator or Ps or Pr and how to control them. It will be fun to watch, made by you!!!

[@AJBlue98]

Dansky, I've seen - and loved several of your videos lately. I've even subscribed to your channel. Sadly, this was not your best; a "how to master" video that promises "no more struggling," cannot be just however many minutes of watching someone make guesses about how to cope with the thing they claim to be an expert at. To teach someone how to master something requires starting with a clear idea of what points need covering and a plan that covers every step of the process of covering them. It then requires at least one rehearsal to work out all the kinks beforehand, especially in a "mastering X" video, where the final product needs to make the presenter look like a competent authority on the subject. I'd love to see you tackle this one again, though. It's clear from your other videos that you really do know your stuff, it just really didn't come across in this case.

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks Russ, really appreciate such honest and thoroughly-considered feedback, very helpful for future videos 👊

[@FIFAProPlaysTV]

are you teaching or you are learning? all the shortcuts used.. not mentioned. o well off to find another tut

[@MohaMmedMQ]

2055 oh 🙄

[@PeterKoperdan]

The title is misleading as it doesn't match the content. A better title would be: Your first baby steps with the pen tool. God, how much worse is clickbait going to get on KZbin?🤦‍♂

[@chairmanm3ow]

This isn't how to master the pen tool, it's showing me that the pen tool will piss you off and need a lot of fine tuning

[@limitone9564]

Why would they invent a pentool that's so difficult to 99% of users? Can somebody pls improve this?

[@exess1001]

Lmao

[@ForeverDansky]

😂

[@elbeantako8411]

How is this helping people "master" the pen tool when this guy doesn't know what he's doing himself and just kind of doing everything in a whim

[@szazonkrayan2419]

messiii

[@royale4004]

Really ???

[@niazistar3838]

This was a joke only nothing any pro using,, maybe it was good for beginners but I clicked on this video just because I was already good in pentool and I thought I will become more pro but now I realize it was just a joke I am more good then you

[@ForeverDansky]

I’m a professional designer and I use them, so yea, there’s that 😜

[@niazistar3838]

SORRY FOR HARD WORDS DEAR

[@okorefewatchwell3105]

@@ForeverDansky haha😂

[@ZoranImsiragic]

I like your tutorials. That much that I recommend you to my students. But, this tutorial is not useful. First, you didn't explain the basics of using a pen tool. Second, there are too many anchor points. Smooth tool with a pen tool? Really? You didn't show an anchor point tool. In a process of transformation of a path is essential. I was looking forward to watching your tutorial on a pen tool, but now I'm really disappointed.

[@Rasha_risha8]

soo poor

[@timmytee734]

I don't have shaper tool. Anyone knows how to make it visible on the tool bar so I can use it?

[@ForeverDansky]

Hey Timmy, click the 3 dots at the bottom of the toolbar on left, and switch to the “Advanced” toolset from the menu icon in the top-right corner.

[@timmytee734]

@@ForeverDansky Thanks a million!