i’ve found that this little freehand attribute has freed and hassled my life in equal degreess since i found it

because of it i can draw a shape and automatically see how it’s going to knot in a number of different degrees. So i have to fight the urge to not just end the piece there but to pencil and paper the mirror like i would on the computer. the beauty is that this eneviably allow for the shape to grow and the final piece to have more drama than it would if i had taken the easy route.

i do love the tool though because it makes it easier to take the peice from pencil to vector and it allows you to play with minute spacing issues that are just too cumbersome to recreate with lead.

i’ve found it’s easier to use the tool with the guides on, but then again i’m one of those that feels very safe in grids. It’s one of the reasons i’ve choosen to live in center city philadelphia for the past nine years.
though I must warn new users, that also happen to be perfectionist, that one of the things it does bring to notice is symetrical imperfection. epecially if your shape is freeform and is to be knotted together after the mirroring. Meaning you take the peice and mirror it, lets say 8 time. so that a part of each peice it being overlapped by the ones on either side of it, in preperation to knot all the peices together in order to create the final peice. On your pencil original the peice always fits together : ). But many time it’s when this overlap occurs you realize that spots might be misshapen and have to be fixed or enhanced, depending in if the uniqueness is a good or bad thing, them.

So don’t ever assume, that the original shape you drew is the one that looks best when mirrored.

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