How to restore functionality while drawing verticies? Yesterday, I watched ianscott888 tutorial on drawing vertices. Great video. And for several hours afterwards, I was gleefully drawing verts on new projects and old. It worked fantastic. Then, it stopped working.

So, I went to every extreme to get the functionality back. Even reloaded Blender to make sure I had a good version.

Hold down CTRL+RMB. That's how it's supposed to work. But, now all I get is faint gray area bordered by white dots. Can you please help me figure out if this is a Blender problem or something I've done wrong? Will provide screenshot if allowed.
The solution is to stop moving your mouse when you click.

In edit mode &#9096; Ctrl is a shortcut to extrude, the selected vertices will be extruded to the point you click.

Holding &#9096; Ctrl while dragging the  is the way to use lasso select. This is what gives you the grey area surrounded by dots.

Note that this is based on blenders default  RMB to select option, by changing that to  LMB you get the same result by using &#9096; Ctrl and  RMB