The Pencil Tool

The Pencil Tool is a great tool for creating free-form shapes and lines in Vectornator. It resembles a pencil, and when you click and drag with it, it forms a line that pretty much follows where you dragged, just as a real pencil would do. A Pencil Tool is to design more free-form paths similar to how we usually draw on paper using a pencil.

A path can be closed like a square or circle or open like a line. Whether closed or open, all paths are made up of anchor points, which regulate the path's direction and shape, and line segments that join those anchor points. This tutorial will teach out how to use the Pencil Tool and refine your path by deleting or adjusting these nodes.

The entire idea behind the Pencil tool is to let you draw exactly what you want — as swiftly or gradually as you want. This comprehensive tutorial will give you all the theory and the practice you need to get started.