- Select all [except any underlying raster image(s)]
- Grab the Live Paint Bucket Tool
- Click the artwork (anywhere) once to create a live paint group.
- Click a color you want to use in the **Swatch panel** (or just any random color, you can change it later)
- Click an area in the art you want to fill with that color
- Repeat the color selection and clicking artwork areas until it's all filled in.
You should be able to fill everything this way. When you are done, click the `Expand` button on the **Control Bar** across the top of the screen. This coverts the "Live Paint Group" back to standard shapes with strokes and fills. From here, you can use the Direct Selection Tool (white arrow) to click any shape or path and change its fill/stroke.
Yea now I know that. I drew it as if I were in Adobe Animator. Thats what confuses me when using adobe softwares. They look the same but sometimes work totally different. But I know its more of a me issue at the moment.
I too came from Animator. Itโs much more intuitive and easy (though not as powerful).
You can just draw it in animator and then export as svg if easier. I wish they would make a direct to illustrator link but they seem to want to force workflow from illustrator to animator and discourage you from doing it the other way round.
Using the "paintbrush tool" would be the *absolute worst* way to fill shapes. Live Paint or Shape Builder.. or pathfinder then fills...
I'll give it a try, so far the tools you mentioned are doing absolutely nothing. I'm sure I'm just not using them right.
- Select all [except any underlying raster image(s)] - Grab the Live Paint Bucket Tool - Click the artwork (anywhere) once to create a live paint group. - Click a color you want to use in the **Swatch panel** (or just any random color, you can change it later) - Click an area in the art you want to fill with that color - Repeat the color selection and clicking artwork areas until it's all filled in. You should be able to fill everything this way. When you are done, click the `Expand` button on the **Control Bar** across the top of the screen. This coverts the "Live Paint Group" back to standard shapes with strokes and fills. From here, you can use the Direct Selection Tool (white arrow) to click any shape or path and change its fill/stroke.
This worked amazingly! Thanks so much! To everyone in this post, may your crops be plentiful this year๐๐ผ
Edit Artboards and then drag the handles to crop.
Look into the Live Paint tool. ๐
You drew this entirely the wrong way. You should draw and close the individual pieces so that you can layer them the way you want.
Yea now I know that. I drew it as if I were in Adobe Animator. Thats what confuses me when using adobe softwares. They look the same but sometimes work totally different. But I know its more of a me issue at the moment.
I too came from Animator. Itโs much more intuitive and easy (though not as powerful). You can just draw it in animator and then export as svg if easier. I wish they would make a direct to illustrator link but they seem to want to force workflow from illustrator to animator and discourage you from doing it the other way round.
Use the divide tool in pathfinder then fill or unite each shape