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Coloring paths and testing the interlock

Coloring paths and testing the interlock - Illustrator Tutorial

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Coloring paths and testing the interlock

I've saved my progress as Ready to deploy.ai. In this exercise, we're going to take this guy, we're going to assign some fill colors, we're going to group them together, we're going to rotate him to create the other various humanoids, and we're ultimately going to assemble a rough repeating pattern that will then serve as the basis for a rectangular tile pattern. So I'm going to switchover here to the Black Arrow tool. I'm going to click in this big humanoid shape here. From the Swatches panel, I'm going to fill it with this Muted red. But first of all, I need to make sure the fill is active. So I'll switch over to the Color panel, it's not. I'll click on Fill, or press the X key, switch back to Swatches and then click on Muted red in order to fill that guy with red. And now I see what other filled shapes I have, including this little interior of a thumb shape. That's going to be fun to select. So I'll go ahead and marquee, just this tiny marquee around it, in order to select both of…

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