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Coloring your Pencil tool art

Coloring your Pencil tool art - Illustrator Tutorial

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Coloring your Pencil tool art

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- [Instructor] All right, as you can see here, I've gone ahead and finished off all my path outlines, which is why, in this movie, I'll show you how to assign color to your Pencil Tool art with the help of the Shape Builder Tool. So, the first thing I'm going to do is create lushly textured background, and that's actually really easy to pull off just by zooming out, like so, and then, creating a new layer in front of the template layer by clicking in the template layer and then pressing the Alt key, or the Option key on the Mac, and clicking on the little page button at the bottom of the Layers Panel, and I'll just go ahead and call this new layer background, and green is fine as the color, so I'll just go ahead and click OK. All right, now, you want to switch to the Rectangle Tool here in Shape Tool flyout menu and then go ahead and drag from one corner of the bleed to the other, and the bleed, as you may remember,…

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