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How to use the Shape Builder Tool to recolor artwork

How to use the Shape Builder Tool to recolor artwork

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

How to use the Shape Builder Tool to recolor artwork

Hi there. Welcome back to another installment of creative quick tips. My name is Justin Seely and this week we are going to talk Illustrator and a little trick that I have for using the Shape Builder tool in a way that you're not used to. So, the first thing we're going to do is were just going to create a brand new document. Does not matter how big or how small. And then you're just going to draw some shapes. So draw out something like a rectangle. Then go over here and grab the Ellipse tool, draw something out like that and then maybe even go and grab something like the Star tool. And we'll add a few more layers to that like this. And I'm doing that just for the up arrow key, by the way. Once I do that I have everything in place that I need. And so what we're going to do here is we're going to use the Shape Builder tool to combine these together. And if you don't know what the Shape Builder tool is, it's basically it allows you to draw complex shapes without actually having to draw…

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