Refining color and detail - Illustrator Tutorial

Now that I'm looking at it, I definitely think we need to use some minor application of gradients in order to pull off certain types of detail. One of them is, we're going to do on this back tail. So even though it's this color, I'm just going to apply a gradient to it. And I will go ahead and drop this color from the swatches into this gradient slider. Actually that's the wrong one, we want it to go to the other side. We want the lighter color to be there. And then I will take this darker shade and drop it in here. And that's pretty close to what we want. We're going to go to the Gradient Tool, click on it, and this will give us control to determine how far we want the gradient to go into that shape. So, for right now I think that looks good. It's, the darkest part will be on the bottom of his body where the least amount of light is showing. So that's kind of why I colored it that way. And, that looks pretty good. We'll go ahead and I know there's one shape I want to create. So I'll…