High there and this video we're going to take this kind of hand-drawn done with a pain so in real life
drawing and go and do this where we fill up with color easily making it all kind of victory and nice.
All right let's go and do it now in this tutorial case it is going to be three different types is going
to be a hand-drawn one where if I don't then you can see like it's just kind of a pencil drawing and
and these guys here we drew earlier in the class right.
And all of the pros and cons we can with these.
So for this guy here we need to first of all vectorize him.
Basically it's called Live trace.
OK so image trace if you select on him and over here there's one image trace.
If you're using a earlier version of illustrator of the top their image trace it doesn't matter a click
on it.
And best results try different ones but normally it's just black and white logo will work.
And the thing about it if I zoom in now it's actually vector shapes that I can fill.
It's not quite ready because you need to expand.
Otherwise it would work.
K now it's lots of pieces.
If I go to outline view command y control line and PCTs actually Victor.
Now I need to color it.
We're going to use our super resourceful shape a little easier for lots of things.
So with it open let's do a couple of things.
Open up our window and swatches.
Now you might what I've done for us and this is where it is IVD cleaned up Milborough never the thing
we learnt in advance to color tips and tricks I've cleaned up our switches panel.
We've got the basics in here.
You might get start with stop mixing colors that you want to color with.
You can do them on the fly.
And another thing you need to double check is if you double click this tool is that you want to make
sure the fiction is on small for the moment.
We'll look at that in a bit more detail in a second and make sure this I turn this off earlier in the
course.
Basically it's the color that appears just above your cursor and I'm not a big fan of it.
So we need to do is click on it and color it's going to pick a starting color.
OK.
And when I click on it once and it's filled with that kind of off I should pick a slightly more specific
color that you can actually see.
So I've clicked on that and it just fills it up.
And if you're running into problems with the hand-drawn type double click this and play around with
the get detection.
OK.
Because you can see in here there is gaps that I've got there any gaps in this one there's a gap right
there at the top right.
And because I've got get protection on it's going is going to fill it for you.
Don't worry about it.
Thank you.
Couple of things I want to do to speed this up is one is the short cut that you weren't short is that
useful back in an earlier video member command on a Mac or control on a PC and it gets rid of all of
that and good points everywhere you know which is just to your police and other cool little shortcut
when you're coloring is key.
See just above my cursor there there is actually three little dots the three little squares the middle
one slightly bigger.
If I go over here close to this panel he can zoom right in back.
Can you see over here my curses.
It's telling me that's the one I have selected but what I want to hit my left to right are you see I
can kind of toggle through the available switches so it kind of makes it nice to kind of have one hand
on your keyboard.
Actually I want this to be this color and then I'll go or duck a color in here for this.
I'm just kind of using my left and right killed the pieces.
If you find it very hard to click zooming in I find that the kind of closer you are zoomed to the easier
it is to get into some of these gaps so I'm using left and right.
You can see a quick and easy it is to start coloring this thing on white.
I want this color.
He doesn't look like much of a color.
And you can actually you don't have to use the swatches you can just use pre-mix color you know make
your own.
So double take this pick a swatch.
I want to a color.
My Raheel flower thing.
OK.
And you can click on him you can see I just picked a random color
really hard to get right in there maybe go.
Come on.
Get to go.
All right so there is how to color.
There's a couple of things you know with this white border on the outside K which you may or may not
want and I'm going to hold down the key on my PC.
Well the option can I can just delete them.
So hopefully now we're going to go to transparency and that's a shortcut we haven't learnt before command
shift D or control shift D goes into that kind of more Photoshop style kind of sense of opacity or transparency.
It allows you to know whether there's white in the background or it's blank.
OK.
And let's look at some of these other guys here.
OK.
Because it's going to run a few more problems.
I left to get there on purpose.
I've got some overlapping bits.
So we want to tidy this up so we've kind of moved on from live during to kind of just coloring anything.
And remember these aren't complete shapes or these big holes.
This guy just kind of overlaps this.
So it's like the mole.
OK let's Gerbe shift him for OWL shaped a little and get to diction is going to be a little bit more
important in this case.
Cagas you'll find things like if I double click it and make the to large you see it's is depicted a
really large gap over here in the here and it's decided that hey I can fill it in and if you are watching
this whole tutorial series that drove me mad a little bit a little while ago.
And anyway so.
Yeah.
You might have to play around with Gap detection to work it out for your particular drawing case and
a click OK.
So let's say I want to do this again I want to color the here and then give the green color and then
a color face this color and the eyes are going to be this color.
OK.
But I've got all these extra bits.
Ok overlap so all I can do is I can hold down the key on PC option and I can just click on them.
These bits just get trimmed up.
I love this mush.
So cool huh.
Can you decide on how kind of detail you want to get rid of these but I'm just holding out.
You can drag across things.
OK so there's a kind of a pile of junk here.
We're going to hold an old trek across the mall to get rid of all that.
You know what I wanted.
Kids getting rid of everything hold and altering them to get with these guys.
I said you could drink across them.
It's not working very well.
All right so I'm going to work my way through and keep coloring that is going to be no difference for
this guy.
What I'd like you to do now is you go through and do it but do some maybe some nicer colors.
I picked these colors.
They seem like they're going to be good.
I even did a demo before I recorded this one and it looked better.
And anyway so the window color themes.
Can you find some nicer color themes.
I want you to fill it with Gap detection delete the lines maybe get rid of the stroke add a cool brush
stroke.
Yeah I'd like to see what you've done.
So either stick it here as the class project.
OK.
Oh there'll be a proper space for it here on the web site but also I'd love to see just take a screenshot
and send it to me on Instagram or in on Twitter.
All right.
I will see you in the next video.