How to use the Pencil and Smooth Tools in Illustrator

The pencil and smooth tools come in really handy when you need to draw or redraw parts of your graphic - in fact I use them every day! They're super easy to use if you just know the basics.

Here's the font used in this tutorial - Grand Hotel:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gra...

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