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Introducing Live Paint

Introducing Live Paint - Illustrator Tutorial

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Introducing Live Paint

In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to Live Paint in the context of this boring old Venn diagram. In fact, the name of this illustration is Venn diagram.ai. In case you are not familiar with what a Venn diagram is, it's a way of visually representing topics, and what happens when those topics overlap with each other. We are going to end up working through a more exciting project. I don't want you to think this is the be-all and end-all here. Ultimately, before we are done with this chapter, we are going to create this Celtic knot pattern in which these various objects are winding through each other. In fact, we've got a single object; the screen object here that's winding through itself, something that you can't do just by sending things forward and backward without breaking up the objects. But you can do it and keep the objects totally intact using Live Paint. Anyway, let's get our feet wet inside this illustration. Notice that I've got a total of three circles, that's all,…

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