Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book®

Drawing the piece of stationery

You can draw the diamond-shaped piece of stationery for the logo in a couple of ways. One way is to draw four-sided polygons (using the same methods you used to draw the triangles for the pencil tip). Another way is to draw using the rectangle tool, the rotate tool, and the Transform palette.

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Select the rectangle tool () in the toolbox, and position the pointer over the center point of the pencil body. Hold down Shift+Alt (Windows) or Shift+Option (Mac OS) and drag the tool to draw a square of any size from the center of the pencil. Holding down Shift as you drag the rectangle tool constrains the rectangle to ...