Learn to design a holiday nutcracker in Illustrator, using alternative tools to the Pen Tool, such as building shapes with the Pathfinder Tool. We'll draw simple shapes and combine them with the Pathfinder tool to create complex shapes, we'll work with  the Alignment tool and the Reflect tool and we'll be adding shades in this easy to follow Illustrator class. In this beginner class we'll use basic shapes to design the face, torso, legs of a nutty nutcracker to get you comfortable designing simple and complex characters.