You're gonna basically say, hey, we're gonna focus on the fill or the stroke, whichever one's up front. Look down at the lower left of the Tools panel down here as you press the key, press it a couple times, X, X, X, X. If you want to affect the stroke or the fill on a selected object, or when you're about to draw, for instance, go ahead and press the X key right now. So come up to Fill up here and let's go ahead and remove the fill. Can you guys see the white fill in there? Okay, so you gotta be mindful of what you're working with. It's actually covering up the thing I'm trying to trace. Okay? Now, I do not want a fill to start with with a pen tool because, for me, when I draw with the pen tool, you guys, watch this, if I go out and I'm drawing a particular path, maybe I'm tracing something, for instance, if I draw with this, look what it's doing. If I'm drawing with the pen tool, it's gonna make sure I have a black stroke to start with at one point, usually. It'll kind of wipe off some of the formatting. If you ever have a shape or something you're working with and you're like, hey, I'm gonna, I've got a stroke and a fill on there, you know, something like that, and what I'd like to do is, I'd like to get that back to black and white, just a white fill with the black, pressing the letter D with a shape or an object selected will automatically put the white fill in there and a black stroke on it. If you ever have, just watch up here for a second. It's something you're going to use a lot. You guys, that letter D is gonna be magic. Sometimes you can't, sometimes you're drawing with color or whatever, but if you do this for me, press the letter D right now. So I can see it easily, that type of thing. I like to draw with a black color on the stroke when I draw with the pen tool. Here's a few key shortcuts that you are gonna want to learn when you draw with the pen tool or work with artwork in general. But this is kind of a nice little practice you can work with, okay? Why don't you do this for me, go ahead and select the pen tool over there. These are part of the lesson files and what I did was, I pretty much put an explanation in here of what you need to do as you work with this to create this shape. All right, now we're gonna start to draw a little bit and I'm gonna show you some different key commands that we can use for drawing. So why don't you go ahead and fit that art board into the window. And what we're gonna see is, we're gonna see a couple different art boards in here, okay? I wanna focus on the first one on the left, over here. This is not all of them, but it's the big ones we need to know. Now, what I wanna do is, I wanna show you some key shortcuts for working with the pen tool. If you go into the Day2 folder, you're gonna see segment one. So why don't you come to File, and come to Open, and let's get in here. So what I'd like to do is, we're gonna open up another file. Now, what we're gonna do here is we're gonna switch gears a little bit and start talking a little bit more about the pen tool and drawing and talk about some other drawing tools, as well, kind of get in there.
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