Learning Illustrator : Basics

[private]This is an introductory post and will continue in several sections Through thise post i would like to establish a series of post with introduction to the tools palette and illustrator workspace. A better knowledge and understanding of illustrator.
Since AiVault already holds multiple Tutorials On different tools there is a need for one basic post which will link you to the different sections and show you how to work around in illustrator starting from basic to advance level. You might want to bookmark this post as this will work as a basic linking post to the rest learning resources.
Here is a list of Posts which i will cover up as an introduction to Basics. As These posts are posted you can find these links updated.

1. Know Thy Workspace
2. About the ToolBox
3. Using Tools
4. Working with palettes
5. The Control Palette
6. About Documents
7. What are Templates
8. About ArtBorad
9. Navigation Palette
10. Rulers , Grid & Guides
11. Plugins & Plugin Modules
12. About Drawing

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