learning illustrator via adobe tutorials

 first tutorial: https://creativecloud.adobe.com/learn/illustrator/in-app/explore-shapes

        Using the hands-on tutorial attached to this video, I started to understand more about manipulating the tools in illustrator. 

second tutorial: https://creativecloud.adobe.com/learn/illustrator/web/drawing-tools-in-illustrator

        After playing around with the shape tools and shapes I could create, I wanted to learn more about drawing tools and how to utilize them.

third tutorial: https://creativecloud.adobe.com/learn/illustrator/web/illustration-techniques

        This tutorial showed me how, in the example of creating a poster, to manipulate the tools even further to trace sketches and to make more controllable shapes and lines.