- [Voiceover] Alright, another really great way
to use Live Paint is to color freeform artwork.
And so here we are looking at that uniform stroke tracing
that I made back in chapter 16.
And, let's say I want to fill it in
in order to create this full color effect right here.
Well, Live Paint is perfectly suited to this purpose.
Because, after all, we're not trying to fill in
a bunch of neat and tidy path outlines.
Instead, we're trying to color the artwork
based on its appearance.
And, to make my point clear,
I'll go ahead and switch over
to the unfilled version of the artwork
and I'll click on any one of the path outlines
to select everything inside this artwork.
And so, as you can see,
if I go ahead and twirl open this tracing layer,
it contains one, and only one, static group.
I've gone ahead and deleted the live tracing object
from this artwork because that way it'll open more quickly
for those of you have access to this file.
Alright, now let's say I wanna primarily fill the art
with a light shade of orange.
I'll go up to the first swatch
up here in the far left side of the control panel.
I'll click on it and I'll select this shade of orange
that begins r equals 251.
And, you can see that makes an absolute mess of everything
and that's because we have a ton of open path outlines.
Which means, that Illustrator goes ahead
and clips the fills between the end points.
Now that is not remotely what we want,
so, I'll just go ahead and press control + z
or command + z on a Mac to undo that fill
and instead, I'll go ahead and select the Live Paint bucket
from this flyout menu,
or I can press the keyboard shortcut of K.
And now, I'll make sure my swatches panel is open,
and, of course I can make that happen
by choosing the swatches command from the window menu.
Make sure your fill is active as well
and then select that same shade of orange
that begins r equals 251.
And now, if I were to click inside my artwork,
I would go ahead and fill in this guy's face
without filling anything outside of this virtual region.
Alright, now that you've converted this item
into a Live Paint object,
and you can confirm that's the case here
inside the layers panel,
go ahead and twirl open your group
and you'll see that instead of a bunch
of static path outlines, you have your Live Paint object.
And so what I suggest you do,
is just drag it out of the group like so,
at which point, the group will disappear.
Alright, so as I was saying,
because you have a Live Paint object,
you no longer have to have it selected,
so press control + shift + a,
or command + shift + a on the Mac
to deselect your artwork.
And then, just go ahead
and click in these regions right here
and notice as you click,
its not the tip of that paint bucket cursor that's hot,
it's the tip of the tiny little arrow head.
And what that means is you want to click with the arrow head
in order to fill, or, to make things a little less tedious,
you can actually click and drag inside these regions.
And when I say drag, you're not creating a marquee,
you're dragging freeform.
Alright, now I also want the face of the sun to be orange
but notice if I click inside of him,
I end up filling a couple of his teeth as well.
And, I'll show you how we're gonna solve that problem
in the next movie.
But for now, just go ahead and press control + z,
or command + z on the Mac to undo that fill.
And then, drag all over his hand like so,
and you can be pretty sloppy about it
because, after all, there's nothing to fill
outside of the hand over here.
And so, if you just drag around a little bit,
you should be able to get everything filled pretty quickly.
And then, go ahead and drag inside this other hand,
but notice, as soon as I click out in this region,
I'll end up filling in his entire shirt.
Again, that's something we'll reconcile in the next movie.
But for now, don't worry about it.
I'll just go ahead and drag up these fingers to fill them
and now, I need to drag across this great network
of tentacles right here.
And, I'll go ahead and click and drag across these guys
and because there's nothing to fill that side here,
notice if I click, nothing happens,
except that I get this helpful little tutorial here,
which you're not gonna need,
because I'm explaining all in these videos
so, I'll just go ahead and click OK.
And then, I'll just click
and drag inside these little areas.
Notice, I don't get anywhere
if I click inside these little nodules
so, for now, I'll go ahead and ignore them
and I might as well turn on "don't show again"
because I don't want to see that guy,
and, I'll click OK.
And now, just go ahead and drag over here.
Here's another thing that I can't fill in.
Here's another thing that I can.
And so, having done as much work as I can at this point
I'll press control + zero,
or command + zero on the Mac to zoom out.
Alright, so those are the basics of coloring in line art,
whether we created using the Live Paint function
or something like the pencil tool.
In the next movie, I'll introduce you
to Illustrator's automatic gap detection.