Make sure you finish the drawing tutorial from yesterday. It will be essential for you to get the basics of the pen tool figured out for many Illustrator assignments that you will be doing this term.
We are going to practice our pen technique by tracing a pre-made symbol from the Illustrator symbol library. Open the Symbol menu, Window>Symbols. There are many to choose from, but keep it simple for starters. Drag your desired symbol to the page. Create a new layer Window> Layer> select "New Layer" in the pop down menu. Make sure the new layer is selected when are drawing. Using the pen tool, draw an outline of the symbol. You can try to colour and fill in colour (you may change the colour). Cover 100% of the symbol as close to the original as possible.
Afterwards, we are going to make our own symbol and add it to our symbol library. Here is a tutorial to show how to create a simple starburst and save it to your symbol library.
http://youtu.be/cnuG76a9Zdw
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