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- [Instructor] In this movie,

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we'll begin filling in
our artwork with color,

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and I'll show you how roughly
and quickly you can do it

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thanks to our ability to refine
the results after the fact,

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using the Eraser Tool.

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Alright, so I'll go ahead

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and switch over to my artwork so far,

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and I'll select the Blob Brush Tool.

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And then I'll go up to the Stroke option,

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the 2nd color swatch up
here in the control panel,

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and I'll change it to the
slight shade of orange,

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R=251, G=176, B=59.

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Alright, now I'll press the Escape key

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in order to hide that panel,

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and I could just start painting

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with my tiny little brush here,

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which is great for the outlines,

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but it's not so great for
painting in large areas of color,

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which is why it's so great

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that you can modify the size
of your brush on the fly

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using the square bracket keys,

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that are just to the right
of the P as in Paul key

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on an American keyboard.

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If you want to increase
the size of your brush,

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you can press the ] Key,

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if you want to increase
its size more quickly,

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just press and hold the ] Key like so.

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If you want to decrease
the size of your brush,

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you can press the [ Key,

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or to move quickly,
press and hold that key

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as you see me doing here.

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Alright, now I'm just going to go ahead

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and roughly paint over this guy's face,

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and I really want to cover everything

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but the eyelids with color,

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and as you can see here,

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I'm doing a pretty rotten job,

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but it's going to work out just fine.

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And so I'll just kind of
scrub back and forth here

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a little bit,

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scrub around the eye as well.

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And I want you to notice, that so far,

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this is a standard Path outline,

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and it should remain a standard Path

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throughout your painting experience here.

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But if I were to go around

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and connect back with the
beginning of my brush stroke,

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I'm going to see the words Compound Path,

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over here on the far left
side of the control panel,

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and that's because I
have this interior shape

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that's cutting a hole in
the one outside of it.

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And so to return to a
standard Path outline,

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I'm just going to increase the
size of my brush like crazy,

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and I'm going to paint around this area.

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I still have a hole,

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so I'm still seeing
the words Compound Path

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on the far left side of the control panel.

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So now I'll press and hold the [ Key

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to reduce the size of my brush,

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and I'll paint in there,

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and as soon as I get rid of the hole,

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I should see Illustrator
return to the word Path

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to tell me that I no longer have any holes

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in my Path outline.

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Alright, now I'm going to
reduce the size of my cursor

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and paint in this area,

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and I also want to paint
inside of the neck,

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so I'll just go ahead and whip
that stuff in there like so,

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and then paint back and forth

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to make sure that I don't have any holes.

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Oh, and I missed the ear,

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so I'll just go ahead and paint
inside of the ear as well,

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so we want everything about the face

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except for the eyelids
to be painted orange.

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Now notice, your results
are going to vary,

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but I'm now seeing the word Group

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on the far left side of the control panel.

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We don't really want that,

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so to get rid of that,
go to the Object menu,

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and choose Ungroup,

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or you've got the keyboard shortcut

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of Control + Shift + G, or
Command + Shift + G on the Mac.

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And then, switch to the Black Arrow Tool

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by pressing the V key,

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and go ahead and Shift-click

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on this big Path outline to deselect it,

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and you'll see the culprit.

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This little guy here

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somehow got disassociated
with the other Path,

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and so just press the Backspace key,

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or the Delete key on the Mac

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to get rid of it.

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Alright, now I'll go ahead
and click on the Path outline

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to select it,

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and notice now it reads Compound Path,

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which means that there's
some kind of tiny little hole

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inside of it,

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and so to get rid of it,

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right-click on the Path,

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and choose Release Compound Path,

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that's the easiest way to work,

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and then I'll go ahead and Shift-click

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on the big orange Path to deselect it,

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and now I'm down to No Selection.

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You can see the words No Selection

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up here in the control panel,

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which means we now have
the standard Path outline.

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Alright so I'll go ahead and click on it

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to select it again,

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and then I'll right-click
and choose a range

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and then choose Send to Back,

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in order to send that shape
in back of the black outlines.

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Alright, now you can see

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that I've gone outside the
lines quite a few times,

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especially up here in the eyes,

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so I'm going to go ahead and zoom in

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by Control + Spacebar,

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or Command + Spacebar-clicking on the Mac,

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and now I'll select the Eraser tool,

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which is located two tools
down from the Blob Brush

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in the single column toolbox.

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And now notice,

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if I start painting,

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I'm seeing myself paint
through both the orange shape

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as well as the black outlines,

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but as soon as you release,

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you'll see that the
black outlines are fine,

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and all you've done is erase the orange.

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And the reason for that

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is that the Eraser tool

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requires a Path outline to be selected

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in order for it to do anything.

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So if I were to paint
up here back and forth,

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it looks like I'm painting
away those black outlines,

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but as soon as I release,

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you can see they're just fine.

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So again, you can only
erase selected things

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with the Eraser Tool.

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Alright, I'm going to paint
over this another time there

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in order to do a little better job,

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and I'm going to paint
down in this region as well

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in order to erase that stuff away,

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and now I'll just paint down
the outside of this guy's neck,

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and then I'll paint over
here just to be safe.

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Now notice in this case,

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we've got a little bit of an edge here

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that didn't get painted in,

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and so I'll go ahead and switch
back to my Blob Brush Tool.

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You can see that the fill
color is orange, no stroke,

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that's going to work out just fine,

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at which point I'll go ahead
and paint that region in.

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The problem is it didn't join

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and that's because the
shape is in the background.

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And so Illustrator

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cannot paint to a
background shape by default,

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and so what you have to
do is press the V key

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to switch back to the Black Arrow tool,

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go ahead and Shift-click on
the big shape to select it,

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and then switch once again
to the Shape Builder Tool,

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and go ahead and drag over
these three regions like so

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in order to merge them all together.

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That also brings them to front,

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so you've got to press the V key

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to switch back to the Black Arrow,

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right-click, choose Arrange,

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and then choose Send to Back,

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to once again move that shape
to the back of the stack.

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Alright now I'm going to
switch back to my Eraser Tool,

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and I'm going to go ahead
and paint down like so.

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Of course, you're going
to find different errors

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in your artwork than I'm finding in mine,

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or you may not find that many errors

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because you may have been a
lot more careful than I was.

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Alright, but throughout,

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you want to make sure that
you're not seeing anything

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but the word Path up here
in the control panel.

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For example, if I were to paint like that,

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I'd paint a hole into my Path outline,

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and as a result I would
see the words Compound Path

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which I don't want,

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so I'll just go ahead
and press Control + Z

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or Command + Z on the
Mac to undo that change,

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and now I'll just paint away

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these final mistakes up here
toward the top of the head,

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and we end up with a nice orange fill

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that never exceeds the outlines,

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after which point,

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I'll just go ahead and press the V key

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to switch back to the Black Arrow tool,

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and I'll click off my
artwork to deselect it.

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And that's how you
paint in a colorful fill

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as well as erase away any mistakes

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using the combined
abilities of the Blob Brush

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and the Eraser Tool
here inside Illustrator.