Understanding layers, groups, and sublayers

So, let's learn how to take simple art, figure out what layers it's using, and …break it into multiple layers so that our job is easier. …I'm going to go to File > Open. And I'm gonna go to the Chapter 10 Assets …folder there and I'm gonna open Los Chickens. …Start is the name of that file, Los Chickens, Start. …And I've back-versioned this all the way to Illustrator 8, which pretty much …covers all of our bases, I think. And I'm gonna expand this to fit my whole …window and Cmd+0 to fit in window. That's exactly the same thing we would do …in Photoshop or InDesign. Now, if I go to window layers, there's my …layers panel. And I'm gonna grab the tab and bring that …out because we're probably gonna make lots of layers in this.…

Now, if I select this art, you can see all the vector lines there. …And you can see there is one layer and that's always going to be there. …I don' t care if you have an old piece of clip art that you got off a CD somewhere …or someone e-mailed it to you and nobody even knows anything about layers. …