Drawing a Pencil with Illustrator

This tutorial was done in Illustrator 10, but it will also work with version 9. Versions before that, I don't know because I don't have any version before 9, so if you try it with a previous version and it does work, please email me with the version number of Illustrator and any changes you had to make to get it to work.

Before start, change your units preferences to pixels by going to Edit > Preferences > Units and Undo. Set General to pixels in the dropdown list. You can work without doing this, but if your preferences are in inches, make sure you type "360 px" or whatever (without quote marks) and not just "360" or Illustrator will assume you want a 360" (or point or pica or whatever) image.
Start a new image in RGB mode.
Go to View > Grid to turn on the grid.
Go to Edit > Preferences > Guides & Grid and set up the grid. Grid every 72 pixels;
subdivisions: 4 This will ensure that your document is set up the same as mine.

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