TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Beginner

6 min

The Animate drawing tools

Learn how to use the drawing tools and create a boat.

What you learned: How to draw with Adobe Animate

  • Every shape in Animate comes with a stroke (outside border) and a fill (the inside color of a shape)

  • Lines can be dragged and connect and snap to each other

  • Tool tips help to show if a shape will move as a curve or as a point

  • Bezier curves are simplified by simple clicking and dragging the lines or shapes

  • Lines get divided where they intersect and can snap together

  • The drawing tool has 3 settings (ink, smooth, and straighten)

  • Paint Bucket is for adding color to fills, and Ink bottles adds color to the stroke


5 May 2023

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