- [Voiceover] Alright, now let's say we want to fill
the area outside the alien, including the grass,
and the sky, and so forth.
Well currently we can't.
Notice, if I switch back to my live paint bucket,
which again I can get by pressing the k key,
I can switch to this light shade of green that
begins r equals 140, g equals 198, b equals 63.
And then I can click inside the guy's shirt
if I want to to change it.
I don't, so I'll press control + z, or command + z
on a Mac, to undo that change.
But I can't click out here, or that is to say
I can click as much as I want,
but I'm not going to make any difference.
And that's because there's nothing to contain the fill.
And in this region, we just have open-path outlines,
there is no containment whatsoever.
And the solution by the way, is to draw a big rectangle
around the artwork.
By first clicking on the document setup button,
up here in the control panel.
And the reason I'm doing this is to create a bleed
because I want to fill all the way past the artboard.
And so, I'll change that first bleed value to 18 points.
And assuming that the link icon is turned on,
as it is in my case, that will update
the other values as well.
At which point I'll click okay to create that bleed.
Alright now I'll press control + minus, or command + minus
on a Mac, to zoom out a little bit.
And then I'll select the rectangle tool,
which you can get by pressing the m key.
Go up to the view menu and make sure
your smart guides are turned on.
Mine aren't, so I'll choose the command,
and then drag from one corner of the bleed to the other,
to create a giant rectangle.
Now we really don't want it to have a fill,
so go ahead and click on the fill swatch, the very first
swatch up here on the far left side of the control panel,
and change it to none in order to produce this effect here.
Alright, now let's say I was to switch back
to the live paint bucket, and I'll go ahead and select that
same shade of green, the one that begins r equals 140,
and then I'll click someplace inside the rectangle
and I end up just filling it.
That didn't help at all.
And so what I need to do is press control + z,
or command + z on a Mac, to undo that change.
You need to let Illustrator know that this rectangle
is now part of the live paint object.
Notice over here in the layers panel,
it is a separate path outline.
And to do that, you press the v key to switch back
to your black arrow tool, shift + click on the alien,
and then go up here to the control panel,
and notice this button right here, merge live paint.
Go ahead and click on it and that will merge everything
into a single live paint object as witnessed here
in the layers panel.
So now you can click off the object to deselect it.
Then again, grab you live paint bucket.
You also have to remind Illustrator that you want to use
this shade of green and then go ahead and click
down here at the bottom.
Now that is going to successfully fill everything,
but it's a little too successful.
We're filling not only the grass,
but the sky as well.
So again, press control + z, or command + z on a Mac,
to undo that change.
Press the a key this time to get your white arrow tool,
and click right there at the end of that
little path outline to select that endpoint there.
And then shift + click on this guy and you want to press
shift + left arrow one, two, three times in order to
scoot those anchor points out 30 points beyond the edge
of the rectangle, as you can see.
And then scroll to the other side of the artwork,
click on that guy, that little anchor point there,
shift + click on this one, and then press
shift + right arrow three times in order to move
those path outlines out beyond the edge of the rectangle.
And now if you were to press control + 0,
or command + 0 on a Mac, to zoom out.
Click off your paths to deselect them.
Once again select the live paint bucket,
which I remind you, you can get by pressing the k key.
Select that shade of green that begins r equals 140.
And then finally go ahead and click down
in this lower region of the artwork.
You will finally, successfully, fill in that grass.
Alright, now if you're working along with me,
press the right arrow key to advance
to the next darkest green swatch.
And then click in this area, and click over
on the left hand side as well, and you may find that
you need to click inside that little region.
Alright, now I'm gonna zoom farther in here
and I'm gonna press the right arrow key twice
to advance to the darkest shade of green,
the one that reads r zero, g 104, b 55.
And click and drag inside these little bushes
in order to fill them up.
And then go ahead and scroll to the other side
of your artwork and click and drag inside these bushes.
You may just have to click inside that guy
and click and drag some more.
Now this time you're gonna have to be
a little more careful, because if you click
and drag up into the sky, you'll fill the sky with color.
Which is not what we want.
But this is sort of illuminative because it demonstartes
that we have this little region here that
needs to be addressed.
So I'll press the a key to get my white arrow tool,
and I'll grab this guy.
And sometimes what helps, is to press control + y,
or command + y on a Mac, so you can see
just how many gaps you have.
And so, I'm just going to manually close these gaps
by dragging these points around to see if I can make
things work out a little better.
And then I'll press control + y, or command + y on a Mac,
and I'll press the k key this time,
to switch to my live paint tool.
Notice that the none swatch, the one with the little
red line through it, is active above my cursor.
And so, I'll just go ahead and click in that little region
there to get rid of the green fill by filling it with none.
Alright, now I'll go ahead and zoom out again
by pressing control + 0, or command + 0 on a Mac.
I'll press control + shift + a, or command + shift + a
on a Mac, to deselect my artwork.
Alright, all that's left now is to fill the sky,
but turns out, I want to fill it with the gradient
and that introduces a new challenge as we'll see
in the very next movie.