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- In this movie,

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I'll show you how to paint a few

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independent paths,

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and then I'll show you
how to join them together.

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Now, the first thing to know,

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is that you can extend a
path using the blob brush

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whether it's selected or not.

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So, for example, if I go
up to the Select menu,

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and choose Deselect, or
press Control Shift A,

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or Command Shift A on the Mac,

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and then I go ahead and
paint a line right there,

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let's say, Illustrator goes ahead

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and joins the paths together,

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as we're seeing here.

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And that's because I'm matching the color.

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Compare that to what happens if I press

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Control Shift A, or Command Shift A,

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to once again deselect the path,

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and I go up here to the Stroke option,

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which takes precedent,

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and I change its color to something else,

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such as this shade of red right here,

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and then I'll go ahead
and press the Escape key

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to hide that panel, and I'll
paint around this left eye,

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his right, of course,
and as soon as I release

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Illustrator goes ahead
and switches the stroke

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and fill colors and it creates
an independent path outline.

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And so if I go ahead and paint
with that same color again,

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I'm going to join this brush
stroke to the eye path,

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but the black paths are
going to be independent.

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But let's say that's not what I want,

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I want to join those
path outlines together,

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then I press Control A,
or Command A on the Mac,

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to select all the paths,

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and then I would drop down
to the Shape Builder tool,

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the one that we saw a
couple of chapters ago,

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and it might be tempting
to press the Shift key,

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and marquee all these shapes,

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but if you do, you're going to
fill their interiors as well,

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which is not what we want.

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So, I'll go ahead and press Control Z,

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or Command Z on the Mac,

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to undo that change,

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and instead what you have to do is

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very carefully drag along
these path outlines like so,

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and then release, and notice
that I have just a little bit

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of extra path right there,

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so I'll go ahead and drag
over this area as well,

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and that will fuse
everything into a single

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black filled path outline.

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At which point, I'll go
ahead and press Control 0,

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or Command 0 on the Mac,
in order to zoom back out.

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And I will once again
select the blob brush.

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Now, another way to work is to just paint

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off the path outline,

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so if I were to paint along the ear,

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for example, and never
touch that selected path,

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then I'm going to begin an
independent path outline

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like so, and then, if I paint down here,

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I will create yet
another independent path,

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and now I'm going to join to that one

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by painting this portion of the ear.

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But if I were to paint over
here, along this eyelid,

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then I would join back up
with the big path outline.

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Alright, but let's say I want to join

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everything together,

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then I could just paint along here,

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up the cheek bone, all
the way into the hair,

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and then as soon as I release,

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because I painted into every path outline,

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I end up joining all those paths together.

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Alright, now I'm going to go ahead

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and finish off the hair,

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and I'm going to do
that in separate passes,

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as you're seeing me do,

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just so that I get some
nice sharp corners,

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I'm going to paint over here, like here,

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and cheat a little into
this area of the template,

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because I feel like I need
to have a little more room.

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And, if you don't get
things exactly right,

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if you make an occasional mistake

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by going too far, for example,

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as I'm doing here,

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don't worry too much about it,

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we'll take care of problems
like that in a future movie.

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Alright, I'm just going to paint in

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these details right here,

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as you see me doing,

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in order to finish off that hair,

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and here's the big path,

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the one along the jaw line here.

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I've got to go very slowly,

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so that I don't make a mess of things,

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but if you do take things slowly enough,

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you should be able to
make it work pretty easily

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because the tool is
just so darn forgiving,

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as you can see right
here, it does a lot of the

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smooth work for you.

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Alright, now I'll paint up
this little detail right here,

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and I'll paint up the neck line,

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and by the way, if you want
to paint a perpendicular path,

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then just go ahead and press
the Shift key as you drag.

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I don't want that, however,
so I'll press Control Z,

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or Command Z on the Mac
to undo that change.

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And then I'm going to
scroll down a little bit

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because I want to paint
more into this neck.

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I want to paint it kind
a kind of collar into it.

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So I'm going to paint way down here,

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outside the bleed, as you can see,

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that red border,

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and then I'll paint along
the bottom of the neck.

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And I'm going to give him a left shoulder

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that goes a little bit
above that neck line,

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and then I'll just go ahead and add

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a couple of collar lines,
as you see me doing here.

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Alright, I'll press Control
0, or Command 0 on the Mac,

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in order to once again center my zoom,

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and I'll press Control Shift A,

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or Command Shift A on the Mac,

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in order to deselect my art work.

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And that's how you paint
independent path outlines,

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as well as fuse those
independent paths together

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using the blob brush tool,

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here, inside Illustrator.