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Building and coloring artwork at the same time

Building and coloring artwork at the same time - Illustrator Tutorial

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Building and coloring artwork at the same time

When we were talking about the Live Paint feature inside of Illustrator, one of the primary tools we were using was the Live Paint Bucket tool, that allowed us to once we've defined or created a Live Paint group, we would be able to apply fill attributes to individual regions. When using the Shape Builder tool, we also have the ability to control the color of the artwork as we're performing these functions. For example, I'm going to start by taking a look at these two circles right here. I am going to select both of them and I'll press Shift+M to select my Shape Builder tool. Now, we already discussed that when we start clicking-and-dragging on a particular object, then Illustrator uses that color for the final artwork. So if I click on the red shape here and I drag across towards the yellow shape, my final united shape is going to be red. Let me press Undo. If I start dragging on the yellow shape, and then I drag over to the red shape, I now see that my shape is turned yellow. Let me…

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