President Carlos P.

Garcia Technical Vocational School of Fisheries and Arts

Puerto San Pedro, Bien Unido, Bohol

Name: Angel Rose A. Singson Year and Section: 10/Del Mundo

2.4
Drawing Lines
Drawing Lines Adobe Illustrator provides numerous line drawing tools. A Tearing off a Panel
You can tear-off a panel so that all the tools within a particular tool can be displayed on the screen.

4 Ways to Draw Lines in Adobe Illustrator

The Line Segment Tool in Illustrator is
good for drawing straight lines, but if
you want to draw curve lines, you’ll
need to use the pen tool or pencil for
freehand lines. The spiral tool makes it
so much easier if you’re drawing a
spiral line/shape.
Note: all screenshots are taken from
Adobe Illustrator CC Mac version. Windows or other versions can look different.
Line Segment Tool
The basic idea is, click on the artboard to choose a starting point and drag the
line to an ending point.
If you need to draw a simple straight line, the easiest way is to use the Line
Segment Tool (keyboard shortcut \).

Simply select the tool from the toolbar, hold the Shift key, click and drag on the
Artboard to create a straight line.

Pen Tool
When you create lines using the Pen tool, you’re connecting anchor points. You
draw straight lines or curve lines. The first step is to decide on a starting point
and click on the artboard to create the first anchor point. Then if you want to draw
straight lines, simply click on the direction where you want to follow.

If you want to draw curve lines, you need to drag when you click
on the next anchor point.

I do have a detailed pen tool tutorial explaining how it works if you’re not familiar
with the pen tool. Read: How to Use the Pen Tool.
Spiral Tool
You might think that drawing spiral lines must be pretty difficult, but did you know
that there’s actually a Spiral Tool? I’ll show you where it is.
It’s not showing on the basic toolbar, but you can always find it from the Edit
Toolbar option.
Click on the Edit Toolbar menu, find the Spiral Tool, and drag it to the toolbar
(anywhere you want). I put mine together with the Arc tool.

Now you can select the Spiral Tool, click and drag on the artboard
to make a spiral.
You can change how it looks by clicking on the artboard with the
tool selected and adjusting the settings in this dialog box.
Radius determines the distance from the center to the furthest
point in the spiral. Decay specifies how much each wind of the
spiral decreases relative to the previous wind. You can set the
number of Segments the spiral has. Each full wind has four
segments. Style allows you to choose the direction of the spiral,
clockwise or counterclockwise.
It can take some time to explore at the beginning because it’s hard
to figure out what values to put, but you’ll get there.
If you want to adjust the line thickness, fill, or stroke color, you can change it from
the Properties panel > Appearance.

Pencil Tool
The Pencil Tool is perfect for drawing freehand lines, even better if you have
a drawing tablet. You can use it to create freehand illustrations.
Select the Pencil Tool (keyboard shortcut N) from the toolbar and start drawing
just as you would using pen and paper.