943 Turning your cat’s eye into a dragon’s eye

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … Remember this, this vector and pixel based cat's eye … set against these greatest reptile like scales. … But see, the thing is about this reptilian cat's eye … is that it's really just the setup for a dragon's eye. … After all, the only difference between this and this … is the overarching color palette. … And so here we are inside Illustrator. … If you take a quick peak in my swatches panel, … you'll see that I'm working with a group of global swatches … as indicated by these tiny white wedges … in the swatches bottom right corners. … This means that each swatch is linked to the objects … that are colored with them. … So if I make a change to a global swatch, … all of its objects change in kind. … Now you may be aware of another way … to recolor our cat's eye, which is to first select … the various objects you want to change, … and then click the recolor button … here inside the properties panel, … or the color artwork icon up in the control panel. …