Well I will first off admit two important things:
1. I just now joined the forum while in my 3rd day of trying to get over my first major issue: therefore I have not searched this forum at all for my answer and out of pure frustration I am posting this before bed in hopes having some friendly advice in the morning and no suggestions to search the forum, except of course helpful or suggested links.
2. I have only been using Illustrator for 3 days. No prior knowledge and several of these hours have been watching youtube videos and taking notes as if in college.
So there you have it. ihave spent the last 3 days trying to get over something surely pretty simple. I have learned many other helpful things in my youtube ventures as well as reading the manual and some helpful articles. I have been drawing for most of my life and I want to learn illustrator to have control of digitizing my own art while editing and perfecting it along the way with the vision I have for it. I cant expect anyone else to have the same vision as me so I want to be the one who translates it to the next level whether it be for a T-shirt or a sticker. I am getting started by digitizing a logo of mine. I figured I would do something pretty simple. I have a vision for it and I figure I can easily acheive it as a beginner project. It is basically some linework and I am going to add some scrollwork at the bottom and some simple lettering. I started with the outline of the logo itself and have already run into a major problem in which i foresee myself encountering for almost every project, thats why I assume there mjust be a simple solution. The logo is similar to a transformers logo as far as the outside with three arrows that make 3 letters inside each other that share lines so to say.
Regardless lest just say i am making a fat box letter style v with an arrowhead on one end at the top left. I can draw this either with the pen tool or the line segment tool. I use shift to keep the lines 90 deg. and I connect the lines to each other at the end. Andthats where my problem arises. When I zoom in to the image the lines touch in the middle but they do not form sharp corners. There must be some way to snap these outside corners together instead of looking like there is a square chunk missing from the outer corners. If I change the stroke to have the anchors iside the extended end then the lines extend to overlap each other but still not long enogh for the sharp point of the corner. The desired effect I have is a sharp corner that fits together as simply as the corners look when choosing the rounded ends. I hope this makes sense enough for yall to understand
Thanks in advance for any and all advice,
Dylan Kail
