It's far better to understand what your drawing actually i s, and what is actually going on. It is actually more fitting to think of your drawing as a stack of colored-paper cutouts, which may or may not be transparent and may or may not be outlined along their edges. Its intention is to let you pretend you are doing things like 'inking' and then 'filling.'īut thinking in terms of 'inking' and then 'coloring' as if you were creating comic book illustrations in pre-computer days is neither the only nor necessarily the best or 'correct' way to work. It depends on everything from efficiency in creating the work to the technical considerations of how the work is to be reproduced.įlood-fill features like Illustrator's so-called 'Live Paint' work by creating additional path objects in the shapes of regions that merely appear to be 'enclosed' or 'surrounded' by multiple other paths.

Best practice involves more than just on-screen appearance. There is no single 'correct' step-by-step procedure for 'coloring' as you create vector based artwork. What is the best process, the correct process, to color an image after the linework is completed. Can someone please help me to figure out the correct process to color after the line work is completed? Thank you so much.

LIKE THERE IS MORRIS CODE YOU NEED TO KNOW JUST TO COLOR. Then use magic wand tool to select black lines Then select again and right click> Isolate Selected GroupsĤ. Use selection to select the Shape and Art.ģ. I have tried and re-tried many times and I cannot get this to work.īut even so, If I make it past this part (which I havent so I do not know if the rest of the process will work or not)īut after you get your base color with the rectangle tool, I read to do these things next.ġ. I checked if i had any effects running. I have checked as many settings as I know how to adjust the fill. It just gives me a blank box around the image.

The rectangle tool will not give me a fill. If not hit Object> Path> Cleanup & Merge again)ĥ. (Make sure your fill-colors were detected correctly. This is what i found to do off the internet and it is not working. AY Everybody, It's Chilly, I'm back because I have another question.

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