From the course: Learning Illustrator Draw
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Selecting colors from the project
From the course: Learning Illustrator Draw
Selecting colors from the project
- You can actually pick colors directly from your artwork. So you don't have to mix them all over again or add them to a library unnecessarily. So if I just come along here to color and tap down like so. Here's my library that I was working with earlier on a theme I created. Go back to the picker and the menu above that where it says wheel, you can see history just here so all of the colors that I've used inside this document are available just here. And you can see some where I made earlier choices and so on, which is very, very useful. But you could also pick things up by pressing on the color option and then dragging to a part of your artwork to select a color. And you can combine that ability with something I tend to do to save me from tapping through to history. And I'll show you what that is. In an area I'm not working in or on a new layer, what I would do is bring one of my drawing assistants up. Typically, a shape like so and I tend to pop 'em on the left where I can. And…
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