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Painting background paths

Painting background paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Painting background paths

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to paint on paths that are located behind other path outlines using the blob brush, and it just involves changing a single preference setting. And so notice that I've reinstated my default colors, so I'll go ahead and change the stroke color to this shade of orange right here that reads R=251, G=176, B=59. And this happens to be the color that I want to use to paint in the creature's eye, and so I'll go ahead and grab the blob brush, which I can now get by pressing the B key, and I'll go ahead and zoom in on the eye a little bit here, and I'll increase the size of my brush by pressing and holding the right bracket key, then I'll just go ahead and paint inside the eye like so. Now notice I'm painting over the green area, and that's because I'm going to send this guy to the bottom of the stack. But first notice that I've got a compound path, so you want to keep an eye out for that…

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