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Creating interwoven path outlines

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Creating interwoven path outlines

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- [Instructor] All right now, in as much as Live Paint is very useful for filling in perceived regions in line art, it really shines in the creation of interlocking paths, and so for example, in the case of this artwork right here, you can see that the purple shape is on top, then the red shape and the yellow shape, going all the way down to the green shape at the back, and you can confirm this case by going over here to the Layers panel and twirling open the past layer. So there's a purple path at the top and the Green Path at the bottom, and that's the way it's got to be an illustrator. Every path line is stacked on top of one another from bottom to top. But the effect I'm really looking for is this one here, where this purple path drops behind the red one, which slides behind the Green Path, which slides in back of the purple path, and we have that same thing going on here. Red slides under yellow, which slides under…

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