How to control the mesh tool?

I am wanting to use the mesh tool but I need to know how to control my lines. I want a starting point and an end point but when I click the starting point is decided by me but the end point is decided on its own, and it is not the end point I want. I want a straight line (with some curves) but I am getting a diagnol line. How can a control this?

This is an image of what I've been doing. See my lines. I wasn't even getting straight lines but I fixed it up someway.
Now look at their image. The lines are going perfectly in the direction they are wanting here. How are they doing it.

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How to use the mesh tool

I am not sure how to use the mesh tool

it can be tricky! it's best to use with geometric shapes and not random figures that you create with the pen or brush tools.
so lets say you wanted to make an apple using a real picture for reference. first off, you'd place the picture of the real apple in the background. next, you would choose the circle tool to create a circle around the apple. then, you would use the mesh tool and press the center anchor to create a simple grid looking form onto the circle. grab the selection tool to move around the anchor points surrounding the apple to make a more accurate outline. after this step, it's easier to add more anchor points for the actual apple! all you must do is grab the pen tool and add more anchor points along the path and use the selection tool to move the anchor points around the apple; eventually it'll look somewhat like a 3D graph of an apple. important tip to remember, the less lines the better. but a few are okay.
so after you've graphed/mapped out your apple you're going to want to press the selection tool and use your eyedropper tool to get an accurate color of the spot/anchor you selected. the basic point of the mesh tool is to outline a picture,@ and with the eyedropper tool you can use the exact colors from the original picture you're working from. i learned this technique from class. here's my example it can be a really useful tool if it's what you're looking for.

Please help me! I am struggling with the mesh tool!

So I want to make this chair look like it does in the picture, but I cant! There is a chapter in my Illustrator CS3 book explaining how to use gradient mesh and mesh tool, but it doesnt help me at all. I am clueless! The tutorial says that I can create points in the mesh simply by clicking with the mesh tool within an object, but when I try to do that, the pointer is "crossed out". I can only add extra points on lines or edges, but not on empty space within an object. What gives? Why is it that others can do it an I cant? Forgive me if I sound a little too upset, but I've been struggling with this for days and I cannot find an answer.
In this tutorial right here: http://www.layersmagazine.com/illustrator-gradient-mesh-tool.html the guy just clicks in empty spaces creating intersections. In my case it is impossible.
PS: Please look at an attached file and tell me what would be the best way to go about coloring this chair. Maybe I am doing this completely wrong? (I only started learning illustrator about 5 weeks ago)
Sorry for the background template being of poor quality, but this was taken from a book and scanned, so it's the best I could do.

You know something I think there should be a behavioral change in this case. To my way of thinking this option should automatically be disabled if you select the Mesh tool. If for some reason you want the mesh tool not to behave the way there might be a toggle or a double click to get the preferences for the tool 's behavior itself. I can see where this behavior can be useful but there needs to be a toggle.
Selecting the anchors for adding color with out accidentally creating a new mesh division is good thing but you need to be able to work both ways.
What do you think Scott Weichert you use the tool extensively, am i wrong?

Why can't I use the mesh tool? - brand new illustrator user

I am trying to learn to use illustrator - I've been watching the online videos - which are very helpful, but there aren't any that I can find for the mesh tool. I want to add some shading to the body of this acrobat but every time I try to use the mesh tool I get the not available symbol. I can't figure out why or how to change it. I started from a scanned drawing, did a live trace, and converted to live paint to fill in colors. What should I do now to enable the mesh tool? Please help!

You need to select the shape and then click inside of it with the
tool. I'm not positive but I think it needs to be a solid for it to
work as well.
Some tutorials that I thought were rather helpful on explaining it
were on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZDViCmo7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdH2hAUUPbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkBAN9XRoo
The person in those videos covers creating the mesh and coloring it,
patching, very nice. Hope those can help you out.

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The Mesh Tool

Hi folks!
How would I approach a picture of a person regarding the mesh tool? I have tried creating the basic path around the whole person - but when I add the mesh tool it looks like world war three has broken out....?!
I thought about dividing up the person to arms, legs, hands, etc - but then you have a problem with gradients accross to paths or do you....?
Can anyone give me any tips on this and how to approach such a large project.
bookie56

I have tried creating the basic path around the whole person.
That's the basic problem, and the nearly universal misunderstanding when first dinking around with Mesh Envelopes and Grids.
Generally speaking, don't start with an outline of the shape you ultimately want to end up with; start with a geometrically simple shape that the Mesh tool can make horizontal/vertical sense out of as you add the main divisions; then reshape the outlines and Mesh lines to the desired shapes.
Understand and then always bear in mind: No matter how you eventually distort the Mesh patches, the Mesh tool basically creates patches which are arranged in rows/columns. They even have a stacking order. Think of a Mesh object as a collection of squares which share edges and corners and can't be separated. You certainly don't want to leave the Patches shaped as squares; you want their edges to eventually follow the coloring tones and/or shape contours of what you're drawing. But no matter how you distort them, each patch is still defined by four MeshPoints; the program still "thinks" of them in terms of rows/columns.
As with auto-tracing, you have to bear in mind that the program can't read your mind. It has no shape-recognition intelligence whatsoever. If you, for example, start with an outline shape that you and every other human intuitively recognize as a sillhouette of an arm, the program just sees a meaningless irregular path with a given number of anchorPoints. When you click in the middle of the shape to create two Mesh divisions, expecting the "arm" to be divided along its "length" (for example, from shoulder down to wrist), the program doesn't see any of that. It just tries to make a horizontally/vertically oriented grid of four patches. So you have to start simple, let the program do the simple things it does, and then reshape those simple things into shapes that humans recognize as shape and shading.
JET

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