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Draw with the Shaper Tool
The Shaper tool allows you to easily create basic shapes, almost as you would with a
pencil on paper. The software automatically translates your drawing into rectangles,
polygons with other than four sides, ellipses, or straight lines. In this exercise, you
use this tool to create the tent artwork.

1. With icons.ai open, expand the Icon Art layer, and then zoom in to the
tent template artwork.
2. Make sure the Icon Art layer is active, then choose the Shaper tool in the
Tools panel.
If you continued directly from the previous exercise, the tool is nested under the Join tool.

3. If you see a window appear with advice on using the Shaper tool, click the
window’s Close button.
Illustrator includes a number of these pop-up “helper” dialog boxes that explain
certain features. Feel free to explore those dialog boxes when they appear.

4. Click and drag to draw a triangle that represents the outer shape of the tent.
For some reason, the Shaper tool always defaults to a light gray fill, even if you define
a different fill color before drawing.

Objects created
with the Shaper
tool are recognized
as Live Shapes.
Shaper
tool

5. Click and drag again to draw the inner triangle.
6. Click and drag again to draw two straight lines that represent the tent poles.

90 Project 1: Campground Icons