How to Use the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator

so you're learning Adobe Illustrator and you want to master the use of the pencil that's great the pencil is one of the most fundamental tools of the software no doubt but let me tell you a secret that most tutorials won't you don't want to learn just the pencil I get it the pen tool is a great tool and more than that it is a classic but over the years illustrator has evolved and updated and many new tools came up not to replace the pencil but to enhance it knowing how and when to use these tools will make working with illustrator something that is much much more instinctive you have my word on that so what if I told you that instead of just learning one tool today you'll learn eight of them that sounds good so enough talking and let's get down to business and of course we're gonna start with the star of the show the pencil to select the pencil you can use the shortcut B th the pencil is pretty is pretty straightforward to use each click on the artboard creates an anchor point which will be connected to the previous one to get started just click once in the artboard notice that a blue line is connecting the mouse cursor to the place where you first clicked this line indicates the path that will be created when you click again let's make our next click and now we have two anchor points