how to draw a horseshoe?

[TiarnaKS]

We have just got Illustrator for my daughter to design a logo.  She has a couple in mind but she's not sure how to create them.  She needs to use a step by step process for her project.   The first is a basic horseshoe shape as she has to have a picture for each step.  The other is a horse.  She can get proper pictures of the completed drawing but she needs drawings of each point.  Like a U shape.  She can draw it but the program doesn't recognise the shape.

[Mylenium]

Well, it is doubtful that anyone will bother to produce soem hundred screenshots jsut so your daughter can re-create them step by step. The rest doesn't realyl make much sense. Your terminology and descriptions are rather vague and things like "the program doesn't recognize the shape" are therefore meaningless. You have to tell us what exact tools and procedures are used.

Mylenium

[Monika Gause]

There are hundreds of tutorials on how to use the pen tool and all the other drawing tools.

You might want to start with the documentation and then study on:

How to draw with the Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool in Illustrator

Don't expect that this will work from day 1. It will need a lot of practice.

[Kris Hunt · Accepted solution]

Here's one way you could do it. Here I'm just tracing a bitmap image of a horseshoe I found on Google Images. Primary tools used are the Pen tool, Pathfinder palette, and the Reflect tool. Anchor point adjustments were made with the Direct Selection and Anchor Point tools. A little bit of Shape Builder tool thrown in there, and okay, I cheated a little and used Astute Graphics' Line Perpendicular to Path tool to ensure the sides of the holes were perpendicular to the length.