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- In this movie I'll
show you how to modify

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the behavior of the blob brush,

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so that you can paint shapes
in back of other shapes.

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I'm going to start things off
by selecting the blob brush,

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which I can now get by pressing the b key.

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And I'm going to change either
the filler stroke color,

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doesn't matter, to this
darker shade of orange

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R241 G90 B36.

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And then I'll press the
escape key to hide that panel.

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And I'm going to go ahead
and zoom in on the eyelids

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like so, and then I'll press
and hold the left bracket key

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in order to reduce the size of my cursor.

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And I'll go ahead and paint
inside each of the eyelids.

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And I'm going to scrub back and forth here

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to make sure that I fill in these shapes

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so that I see the word
path on the far left side

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of the control panel.

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And now I'll just go ahead
and paint this guy like so,

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in order to fill it in as well.

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And now that I've painted
both those eyelids,

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I'll press the v key to
switch to my black arrow tool.

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I'll shift click on the
left hand eyelid shape

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and I'll right click inside the document,

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choose Arrange, and then
choose Send To Back.

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Which works just fine but there are times

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where it would be nice to be
able to paint those shapes

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in the background.

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As opposed to finishing
them off in the foreground

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and then moving them backwards.

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And so for example, I'm going to paint

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in these colors right here by first,

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going up to the select menu

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and choosing the Deselect command.

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Or you can press control shift a,

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or command shift a on the Mac.

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And that way when I change the fill color,

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I wont affect the existing shapes.

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Which I'm going to do by clicking
on this first color swatch

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up here in the control panel.

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And then I'm going to select
this shade of pink right here.

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R237 G30 B121.

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And now I'll switch back to my blob brush,

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and let's say I paint like so.

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In other words, I didn't
quite fill everything

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in right here.

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And then I right click on
the shape, choose Arrange,

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and once again choose Send To Back

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in order to move that shape
to the back of the stack.

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Well if I now try to fill that area in,

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then it creates a
separate shape which means

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I then have to press the v key to switch

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to my black arrow tool,

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shift click on this shape to select it,

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and then switch to the shape builder tool

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which I can now get by pressing the l key

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and drag across all three
of those shapes like so.

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Which brings them back
to the front of the stack

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at which point I have to right
click again, choose Arrange,

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and then choose Send To Back

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in order to move them backward.

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Which is obviously a pain in the neck.

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So what is the solution?

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Well let's say I do
something similar here,

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I'll go ahead and select
my blob brush tool again

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and I'll go ahead and
paint around this region.

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And I might possibly make my brush larger

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by pressing and holding
the right bracket key.

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And then I'll just go ahead
and paint upward like so,

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but again let's say I miss a tiny area.

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So I right click on the
object, choose Arrange,

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and choose Send To Back.

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Well the other options
that's available to you

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is with the blob brush tool selected,

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go ahead and press the enter
key or the return key on a Mac

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in order to bring up
the options dialog box.

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And then turn on merge
only with selection,

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which gives you way more
control over the process.

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And then click OK.

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And from now on you can only
paint selected path outlines

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whether they're in the background or not.

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And you do so by dragging on that path,

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and notice you can still paint on it

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even though it's behind the other paths.

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Which means that you have
the option of doing this.

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I'll go ahead and press control shift a,

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or command shift a on a
Mac to deselect my artwork.

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And I'll go ahead and switch to this

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shade of purple right here,

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R147 G39 B143.

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And I'll increase the size of my brush

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by pressing and holding
the right bracket key.

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And I will paint downward like so.

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And then I'll right click
on the path, choose Arrange,

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and choose Send To Back.

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And now I'll just continue to paint

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on that background shape.

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Which is way more
convenient as you can see.

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And now I'll reduce the size of my brush

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by pressing and holding
the left bracket key.

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And then I'll just go ahead and paint

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in this region as well.

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And so it just gives you that flexibility

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to paint in the foreground
or the background,

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whichever you like.

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Alright so I'm going to go
ahead and paint over here,

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right click, choose Arrange,
choose Send To Back.

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You've also got a keyboard shortcut

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of control shift left bracket,

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or command shift left bracket on the Mac

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if you care to remember that one.

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And now I'm going to paint from up here

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and as soon as I hit this other path,

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everything goes into
the background like so.

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Alright now I'll just
go ahead and complete

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this path here,

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by filling it all the way in

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down to the bottom of that bleed border.

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And sure enough I have a standard path

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with no hole in it,

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as witnessed by the word path over here

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in the far left side of the control panel.

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And now I'll just go
ahead and press control 0

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or command 0 on the Mac,

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to center my zoom.

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And I'll press control shift a
or command shift a on the Mac

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to deselect my artwork.

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And that's how you paint path outlines

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that are set in back
of other path outlines,

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by setting the shape builder
tools so that it merges

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only with selected path outlines

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here inside Illustrator.