This is great for designers who want to jump right in and create artwork from scratch. Unlike the pen tool that uses plotted anchor points on a line, you can use your mouse or digital drawing tablet to draw any shape you would like. The pencil tool is used for drawing freeform line segments. The pen tool is still the primary creation tool in Illustrator, but there are other tools that can be used to accomplish the same (and sometimes better) results when creating vector art. To make Illustrator more user friendly, Adobe introduced several tools to aid in vector creation. While there have been some great improvements to the pen tool over the last 29 years, it still remains complicated and intimidating for new designers. Designers were excited about the new possibilities of digital art, but most people had trouble mastering this new and innovative tool.

Rather than freehand drawing, the pen tool was used to plot and manipulate anchor points on line segments. The pen tool was first introduced to the world in 1987 with the first version of Adobe Illustrator.

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