Quick Tip: Lightning Fast Coloring with Live Paint
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Length: 3:51 min
The Flying Rabbit is back! This time he needs some color. In this Video Quick Tip, you will learn how to use the Live Paint Tool in conjunction with the Swatches Panel to color an illustration. Let’s get started!
This Video Quick Tip follows on from “Using the Blob Brush and Eraser for Character Lines“.
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By Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly is a Melbourne based commercial artist, best known for his brand and website Bucket'o'Thought. He's into comics, animation, black humor, politics, low-brow art, science, physical activity and general silliness.
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Thanks for the video, Sean – some great tips in there. The multiple swatches at once is genius! And that aside, it was worth watching just for the swatch replacement technique that you threw in there. I know I’m going to be using that a LOT!
Nice tip! I think this is speed up things here :)
Great tip. As well as being able to replace the swatch, you can also double click on it to change the colour (this way you an preview the new colour on your artwork).
- Alan
Nice&useful! Very funny character!
thanks Sean!!
Hi i’m fairly new to using Ai, and i can’t seem to make my live paint work…
says i can’t fill this area because its not a live selection?
any help./.?
pretty much copied EXACTLY what you did Sean, only with a different image that i drew.
So, you need to select the shape you want to color with the selection tool, click the paint bucket and it should turn the shape into a live paint shape. If this is being tricky, Select the object and go to Object > Live Paint > Make. I hope this helps :)