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- [Narrator] In this movie I'll show you

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another way to fill in a region with color

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using the blob brush,

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that involves releasing a compound path.

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And I'll also show you how
you can modify a simple shape

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using either the blob
brush or the eraser tool,

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in our case to create the sky.

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I'll go ahead and switch over
to my document in progress

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and as you can see up
here in the control panel

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there is nothing selected

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so I'm free to change
the fill or stroke color

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to anything I want.

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So I'll go ahead and
click on this first swatch

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and select this light shade
of green, R140G198B63.

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And now, I'll go ahead and
switch to the blob brush,

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which now you can get
by pressing the B key.

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And I might increase the size
of my cursor just a little bit

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and I'm going to paint in
several brush strokes here.

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I'll paint along the top
edge of this guy's hair

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and then I'll paint down
the left side of the hair.

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And I'm tryin' to be
careful this time around

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so I don't make a lot of mistakes.

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But I am painting over the ear

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and that's because I'll be eventually

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sending the shape to back,

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so it'll be covered up where
the ear is concerned anyway.

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Alright now it looks like I
got pretty close right there

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but everything's reconciled just fine.

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So now I'll paint down into this sideburn

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and then across this really
long path right there.

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And there's no reason to do
it all in one brush stroke.

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So, I'll take a break here,
reset my mouse a little bit

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because it was startin'
to go off the mousepad.

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And then I'll go down like this.

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And finally I'll drag around the edge.

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So notice I'm just tracing the perimeter.

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I'm not painting the
inside of the hair at all.

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Alright, so now that I've
completed the perimeter

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we can see the words compound path

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up here in the control panel

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and that's because we have
one path on the outside

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and another path cutting
a hole on the inside.

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And so now what you can do

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is press the V key to switch
to the black arrow tool.

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Right click on the path outline

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and then choose release compound path.

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And that will go ahead
and fill in the hair.

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We no longer need the inner path outline

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so go ahead and shift
click on the outer most one

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and then press the backspace key,

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or the delete key on the MAC,

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in order to get rid of the
remaining interior selected path.

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Alright, now go ahead and
click on the big path outline.

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Right click on it, choose arrange

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and then choose send to back.

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And the deed is done.

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We've completely colored in the hair.

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At which point I'll go ahead

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and click off the path
outline to deselect it.

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Alright, now let's create the sky

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and we're going to do so
staring with a rectangle.

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And I want that rectangle to be

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in back of the drawing layer here.

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So I'll click on the template layer,

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drop down to the little page icon

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at the bottom of the layers panel

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and I'll alt or option click on it

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to bring up the layer
options dialogue box.

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And then I'll go ahead and
call this layer background

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and I'll leave it green, that's just fine

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and click okay.

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Alright now with the background selected

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go up to the view menu and make sure

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that smart guides are turned on.

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In my case they're not, so I'll go ahead

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and choose the command or press control U

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or command U on the MAC.

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And then I'll select my rectangle tool

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and then I'll drag from one corner

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of the red bleed to the other.

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And a bleed, once again, is indicated by

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that red boundary that's
outside the art board.

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At which point, I'll go
up to the control panel,

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click on that first swatch

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and change it to the shade of blue.

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Now, obviously we have a
problem in the form of the eyes.

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And that's because the eyes
are currently transparent.

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And so what I need to do is
erase into this rectangle.

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So, notice right now
it's called a rectangle

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on the far left side of the control panel.

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If I were to switch to the eraser tool,

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which I can now get by pressing the E key,

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I can erase inside this eye,

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assuming that it is selected.

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So, I want the cursor to be bigger,

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which is why I'm going to press

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and hold the right bracket key.

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So that works with the eraser as well.

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And now just drag in this area right here

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and you can see, suddenly,

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this is no longer a rectangle,

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it is now a compound path

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up here in the control panel.

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And that's because this thing

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that I just painted is now a hole

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in the larger rectangular shape.

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At which point I'll just go ahead

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and paint in the entire area

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inside of the eye, like so.

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In order to reveal the
template in the background.

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Which is handy.

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And now I'll go ahead and paint

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inside the other eye,

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after pressing the left
bracket key a couple of times

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in order to make the cursor smaller.

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Then I'll paint around this entire area

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inside the eye to erase it away as well.

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And I didn't quite get it as you can see

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if you look closely right there

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I still have this little area

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that has some more path
associated with it.

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So I'll go ahead and erase that away.

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I'll erase into the corners

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and I'll just make sure I
have some nice wiggle room

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around this section of the eye, like so.

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Now the same goes for the
blob brush, by the way.

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If you want to add to the
shape, whatever it is,

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whether it starts off as a
rectangle or anything else.

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Then you can add to it by
selecting the blob brush tool,

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making sure that your color is set

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to the same color as the shape,

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which of course it is

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because after all the shape is selected.

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And of course, thanks to the fact

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that we changed that one setting,

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that we turned on merge
only with selection,

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we now need the shape
to be selected as well,

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at which point I can just go ahead

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and paint inside the rectangle
in order to add to it.

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Now that's not what I
really want to do however,

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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 then I will, as usual,

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zoom out and press control shit 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 notice that the outlines of the eyes

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are currently lit up

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and that's because my
smart guides are turned on.

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If I don't want to see
that kind of highlighting

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then I could return to the view menu

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and choose smart guides to turn 'em off

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or again you can press control U

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or command U on the MAC.

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And then finally, just to protect things,

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I'll go ahead and lock the background

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by clicking in this second column

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here inside the layers panel.

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And then I'll go ahead and
select the drawing layer

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so that I can continue to work
on my drawing of this guy.

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And that's how you fill
in the custom shape

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by releasing a compound path.

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As well as how you erase away

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portions of a simple shape
here inside Illustrator.