Illustrator Pen Tool: Tracing Tips & Tricks for Beginners

🖋️If you're new to Illustrator then the first time you use the pen tool it can be pretty humbling. Learning to draw really clean paths takes a bit of getting used to, but there's a workflow that'll make you feel like a master in no time. Select your pen tool and just click to add path points on your joins or corners. This will create straight lines, but with alt or option held down, hover your cursor over your path until you see a curve icon. Then you can bend your path to the position you want