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You can draw a path using any combination of corner and smooth points. If you
draw the wrong kind of point, you can always change it.
—From Illustrator Help
Drawing a curve with the Pen tool
In this part of the lesson, you'll use what you just learned to trace a curved shape with the
Pen tool.
1.
Press the spacebar to temporarily select the Hand tool ( ), and drag down until
you see the curve at the top of the artboard (on Artboard 3).
2.
Select the Pen tool ( ) in the Tools panel. Click and drag from the “start” square,
up to the gold dot, and then release the mouse button. This creates a direction line
going in the same direction as the path.
