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- In this movie, we're going
to add these competing patterns

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of paint splatters in the background.

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But first, we need to bring
back our Artists palette

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by turning the palette layer back on.

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And it seemed to me that this yellow blob

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right there is too close to the brush,

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so I'm going to select it
with the black arrow tool

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and then press shift up arrow,

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followed by shift right arrow

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to move it up and to the right 10 pixels.

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All right, now go ahead
and partially marquee

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both the perimeter of
the palette and its hole

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in order to select them,

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and then assuming your Fill is active here

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inside the Swatches panel,

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go ahead and set the fill color

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to the shade of brown
that begins with R 140

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in order to create this
initial effect here.

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Now, we've got two problems.

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One is the palette's in
front of all the paint.

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And to solve that problem,

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go ahead and right click on the palette,

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choose Arrange and then
choose Send to Back.

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The other problem is that the hole

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is not currently a hole.

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To make it one, you need to
go up to the Object menu,

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choose Compound Path and choose Make,

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in order to produce this effect here.

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All right, now you can go ahead

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and turn off the template layer

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because we don't need it anymore,

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then click on the template
to make it active.

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And because it's usually helpful

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to assign a background to its own layer,

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go ahead and drop down
to the tiny page icon

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at the bottom of the layers panel

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and alt + click or option+ click on it

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to bring up the Layer
Options dialogue box.

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I'm going to go ahead and
call this layer background

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and change its color to let's say, green,

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right there and click OK.

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All right, now go ahead and zoom out

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so that you can see the entire art board.

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Select the rectangle tool,

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which you can get by pressing the "m" key.

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And assuming that your
smart guides are turned on,

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go ahead and draw from one corner

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to the other of the red border

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that represents the bleed.

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All right, we don't want the background

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to be this color, that's for sure.

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So I'm going to change
this stroke to None,

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and then I'm going to zoom in

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by pressing ctrl + 0
or cmd + 0 on the mac,

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so that we can see these next
two steps in vivid detail.

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And what you want to do
to access these patterns

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is click on the little library icon

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in the bottom left corner
of the Swatches panel,

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drop down to Patterns,

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then go to Decorative,

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and finally you want Vonster Patterns,

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which is going to bring up

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this little micro panel right here.

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Now, if you want to better
see what you're doing,

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then click on the fly out menu icon

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and choose Large Thumbnail View,

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and that will provide
you with a better view

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of every single one of these patterns.

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And then again, assuming
that your Fill is active,

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go ahead and select this
guy right here, Bugaboo,

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which is going to give
you this pattern here.

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All right, now I want to add another

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pattern, Splatterz, in front of it,

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and so I'm going to go up the Window menu

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and choose the Appearance command

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to bring up the Appearance panel

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and then I'll go ahead and drop down

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to the second icon in
the bottom left corner,

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Add New Fill, in order to
add a new fill pattern.

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And now make sure that Fill is selected

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and go ahead and click on Splatterz

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in order to add it to the mix.

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And now you can go ahead and
close this floating panel.

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And now I'm going to switch
back to the Layers panel

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and I'm going to click in the lock column

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in order to lock the background layer.

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Now the thing about what we're seeing

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is it's not entirely currently accurate,

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and that's because
Illustrator's GPU preview

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has a few known issues,
meaning that it's a bit buggy.

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And so if you really want
to see what's going on,

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then go up the View menu

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and choose Preview on CPU,

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and you will see this more accurate,

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and I think better interaction.

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And that's how you add an eye-catching

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paint splatter background
to any piece of artwork

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here inside Illustrator.