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- [Voiceover] Alright,

another really great way



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to use Live Paint is to

color freeform artwork.



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And so here we are looking at

that uniform stroke tracing



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that I made back in chapter 16.



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And, let's say I want to fill it in



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in order to create this full

color effect right here.



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Well, Live Paint is perfectly

suited to this purpose.



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Because, after all, we're

not trying to fill in



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a bunch of neat and tidy path outlines.



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Instead, we're trying to color the artwork



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based on its appearance.



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And, to make my point clear,



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I'll go ahead and switch over



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to the unfilled version of the artwork



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and I'll click on any

one of the path outlines



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to select everything inside this artwork.



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And so, as you can see,



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if I go ahead and twirl

open this tracing layer,



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it contains one, and

only one, static group.



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I've gone ahead and deleted

the live tracing object



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from this artwork because that

way it'll open more quickly



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for those of you have access to this file.



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Alright, now let's say I

wanna primarily fill the art



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with a light shade of orange.



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I'll go up to the first swatch



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up here in the far left

side of the control panel.



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I'll click on it and I'll

select this shade of orange



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that begins r equals 251.



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And, you can see that makes

an absolute mess of everything



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and that's because we have

a ton of open path outlines.



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Which means, that Illustrator goes ahead



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and clips the fills

between the end points.



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Now that is not remotely what we want,



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so, I'll just go ahead

and press control + z



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or command + z on a Mac to undo that fill



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and instead, I'll go ahead and

select the Live Paint bucket



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from this flyout menu,



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or I can press the keyboard shortcut of K.



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And now, I'll make sure

my swatches panel is open,



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and, of course I can make that happen



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by choosing the swatches

command from the window menu.



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Make sure your fill is active as well



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and then select that same shade of orange



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that begins r equals 251.



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And now, if I were to

click inside my artwork,



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I would go ahead and

fill in this guy's face



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without filling anything

outside of this virtual region.



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Alright, now that you've

converted this item



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into a Live Paint object,



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and you can confirm that's the case here



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inside the layers panel,



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go ahead and twirl open your group



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and you'll see that instead of a bunch



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of static path outlines, you

have your Live Paint object.



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And so what I suggest you do,



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is just drag it out of the group like so,



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at which point, the group will disappear.



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Alright, so as I was saying,



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because you have a Live Paint object,



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you no longer have to have it selected,



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so press control + shift + a,



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or command + shift + a on the Mac



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to deselect your artwork.



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And then, just go ahead



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and click in these regions right here



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and notice as you click,



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its not the tip of that paint

bucket cursor that's hot,



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it's the tip of the

tiny little arrow head.



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And what that means is you want

to click with the arrow head



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in order to fill, or, to make

things a little less tedious,



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you can actually click and

drag inside these regions.



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And when I say drag, you're

not creating a marquee,



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you're dragging freeform.



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Alright, now I also want the

face of the sun to be orange



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but notice if I click inside of him,



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I end up filling a couple

of his teeth as well.



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And, I'll show you how we're

gonna solve that problem



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in the next movie.



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But for now, just go ahead

and press control + z,



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or command + z on the

Mac to undo that fill.



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And then, drag all over his hand like so,



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and you can be pretty sloppy about it



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because, after all,

there's nothing to fill



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outside of the hand over here.



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And so, if you just drag

around a little bit,



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you should be able to get

everything filled pretty quickly.



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And then, go ahead and drag

inside this other hand,



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but notice, as soon as I

click out in this region,



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I'll end up filling in his entire shirt.



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Again, that's something we'll

reconcile in the next movie.



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But for now, don't worry about it.



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I'll just go ahead and drag

up these fingers to fill them



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and now, I need to drag

across this great network



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of tentacles right here.



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And, I'll go ahead and click

and drag across these guys



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and because there's nothing

to fill that side here,



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notice if I click, nothing happens,



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except that I get this

helpful little tutorial here,



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which you're not gonna need,



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because I'm explaining all in these videos



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so, I'll just go ahead and click OK.



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And then, I'll just click



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and drag inside these little areas.



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Notice, I don't get anywhere



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if I click inside these little nodules



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so, for now, I'll go ahead and ignore them



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and I might as well turn

on "don't show again"



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because I don't want to see that guy,



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and, I'll click OK.



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And now, just go ahead and drag over here.



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Here's another thing that I can't fill in.



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Here's another thing that I can.



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And so, having done as much

work as I can at this point



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I'll press control + zero,



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or command + zero on the Mac to zoom out.



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Alright, so those are the

basics of coloring in line art,



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whether we created using

the Live Paint function



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or something like the pencil tool.



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In the next movie, I'll introduce you



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to Illustrator's automatic gap detection.