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Weaving one object into another

Weaving one object into another - Illustrator Tutorial

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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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