Meantime.. This guy has several tutorials for Illustrator... they are, mostly, Videos... go to the page linked here...    http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/tutorials/?qh=&section=&q=Basic+Illustrator#/djrygb     this is his first one for Illustrator.. He DOES have a Celtic accent, (Irish, I think), but he's pretty easily understandable. Stick with the vid.. he shows quite a bit of what the pen tool does and takes the time to point out what's different from Photoshop, and what's the same.. it's a download... look to the upper right part of your screen for THAT link... in some ways, being a download is a good thing, since he moves fairly fast.. if you have Windows, you will be able to play it... Media Player comes with Windows.. it's a WMV file.

He has several more tuts that you can also download and look at. Hope this helps, Lou.

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