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Drawing with the Pencil tool

To draw lines and shapes, you use the Pencil tool, in much the same way that you would use a real pencil to draw. To apply smoothing or straightening to the lines and shapes as you draw, you can select a drawing mode for the Pencil tool.

To draw with the Pencil tool:

1 | Select the Pencil tool.
2 | Select Window > Properties and select a stroke color, line weight, and style in the Property inspector. See Using the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the Property inspector.
3 | Choose a drawing mode under Options in the toolbox:
| Choose Straighten to draw straight lines and convert approximations of triangles, ovals, circles, rectangles, and squares into these common geometric shapes.
| Choose Smooth to draw smooth curved lines.
| Choose Ink to draw freehand lines with no modification applied.
| Lines drawn with Straighten, Smooth, and Ink mode, respectively
4 | Drag on the Stage to draw with the Pencil tool. Shift-drag to constrain lines to vertical or horizontal directions.