Help with the pen tool in Designer

[alecksjaycubs]

Total new guy here. I'm trying to use the pen tool in Designer to draw a holly leaf but the pen toll just wants to continue a curve. I want to make a bunch of curves all in the same direction.  I can't figure out how to make multiple concave curves. Example attached. Thanks!

 

 

[firstdefence]

Draw straight lines and bend them with the node tool.

Used the Pen tool (P) to draw the lines and then the Node tool (A) to bend them.

 

 

 

 

[alecksjaycubs]

thanks, I'll look into it. I can't seem to play your video.

[alecksjaycubs]

Worked great! Thanks so much!

[firstdefence]

9 hours ago, alecksjaycubs said:

Worked great! Thanks so much!

Glad to hear worked for you. There are many ways to do these things, having a better command of the pen tool would help you to draw on the fly but there are a variety of techniques to get shapes, as Garry has just shown as I type this lol, another method would be boolean subtracting using ellipses.

[GarryP]

Another method you could try is to use a combination of the Pencil Tool and Shape Builder Tool – see attached video.

Remember to:

• use a Stabiliser with the Pencil Tool to make drawing the curves easier;
• draw the curves so they all overlap at both ends;
• use the “Clean up” option in the Shape Builder Tool to remove the unwanted curve ends.