Combining gradients and depth with Live Paint

In this movie, we'll take our wonderful collection of interlocking paths, and…we'll go ahead and assign gradients to those paths, and notice that…we have radial gradients that begin at the same location here and…proceed in the same direction so that we're establishing a common light source.…We're also going to add some drop shadows.…Now, neither of these complications is terribly…complicated, however, they are tricky, especially the gradients,…and they require a very specific approach.…So, I'm going to switch over to my illustration in progress, here.…

And there's a couple of different we can work.…One is to select the paths with the wide arrow tool.…And you can't dig into paths inside of a live group using the wide arrow.…So I'll just go ahead and press the A key to select the wide arrow tool.…Then I'll Alt+click or Opt+click, on the outside path…associated with the green knot, and then I'll Shift+Alt+click, or…on a Mac, Shift+Option+click, on the inside path.…Then go to the first swatch in the Control panel and select…