From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Weaving one object into another - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Weaving one object into another
I have saved my progress as Independent path outlines.ai. Now all that stuff that we saw back with that Venn diagram, that was live paint for babies. This is the good stuff here, where we create live intersecting objects using live paint. So what I'd like you do is take the Black Arrow tool and go head and marquee these two paths, so that they are both selected. Then drop down here to whatever tools appearing at this location. In my case it's back to the Shape Builder tool, I will click and hold and select the Live Paint Bucket, and then with the Live Paint Bucket active, notice that I am seeing my swatches, it's very important, so make sure that swatch is active here in the SWATCHES panel. And if your green object is on top, like this then this is the approach I want you to take, that is we are going to bring pieces of the orange object in front. So start with a green one in front if you are working along with me. And then I'll press the Right Arrow Key to switch to orange and I will…
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Filling and stroking virtual areas44s
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Introducing Live Paint7m 57s
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Stroking with the Live Paint Bucket tool5m 30s
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Using the Live Paint Selection tool7m 18s
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Adding a path to a Live Paint group4m 33s
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Building a classic Celtic knot8m 28s
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Constructing the base objects5m 31s
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Weaving one object into another6m 13s
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Creating a path that overlaps itself7m 15s
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Painting a path that overlaps itself5m 34s
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Creating knots inside knots5m 2s
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Adding gradients and depth8m 22s
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