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Drawing with grid tools

Drawing with grid tools

- [Instructor] Welcome to the final movie in Shape School. I know it should be Shape and Line School but it doesn't sound as cool. So that's where we're going. Okay, let's delete the shapes that we have or the spirals that we have on the art board here, if you are continuing along with me. And what we're going to do next is we're going to explore the rectangular and polar grid tools. They are very, very similar in a lot of ways. I'm going to move to one of these angles on the corner here and drag across. Again, not releasing the mouse button or track pad at this particular point, keeping that drawn because you can't change it easily or at least not in the dynamic way we're about to, any other way after you've drawn. The up and down arrow keys will introduce more or less horizontal lines. Okay, so more or less along the up or down and the left and right, in case you guess that, will introduce more or less on the left and…

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