0 1 00:00:03,573 --> 00:00:06,182 Hi there, in this video we're going to take this... 1 2 00:00:06,323 --> 00:00:10,612 kind of hand drawn, done with a pencil in real life drawing... 2 3 00:00:10,776 --> 00:00:12,167 and go do this... 3 4 00:00:12,339 --> 00:00:14,058 where we fill it with color easily... 4 5 00:00:14,083 --> 00:00:16,636 making it all kind of vectory and nice. 5 6 00:00:16,948 --> 00:00:19,190 All right, let's go do it now in this tutorial. 6 7 00:00:19,847 --> 00:00:21,284 So there's going to be three different types. 7 8 00:00:21,309 --> 00:00:22,722 There's going to be a hand drawn one... 8 9 00:00:22,747 --> 00:00:25,894 where if I zoom in, you can see, it's just kind of a pencil drawing. 9 10 00:00:26,550 --> 00:00:29,588 And these guys here we drew earlier in the class, right? 10 11 00:00:29,613 --> 00:00:31,933 I'll show you the pros and cons working with these. 11 12 00:00:32,339 --> 00:00:35,940 So for this guy here we need to first of all vectorize it. 12 13 00:00:36,229 --> 00:00:37,596 Basically it's called Live Trace... 13 14 00:00:38,026 --> 00:00:40,159 or Image Trace; if you select on him... 14 15 00:00:40,292 --> 00:00:42,214 and over here there's one called Image Trace. 15 16 00:00:42,246 --> 00:00:44,854 If you're using an earlier version of Illustrator, it's at the top there. 16 17 00:00:44,886 --> 00:00:46,166 Image Trace, it doesn't matter. 17 18 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:49,120 Click on it, and this results. 18 19 00:00:49,315 --> 00:00:52,472 Try different ones, but normally it's just black and white logo that will work. 19 20 00:00:53,472 --> 00:00:56,643 The cool thing about it, if I zoom in now, it's actually vector shapes I can fill. 20 21 00:00:56,917 --> 00:00:59,197 It's not quite ready because you need to expand it... 21 22 00:00:59,222 --> 00:01:00,277 otherwise it won't work. 22 23 00:01:00,707 --> 00:01:03,354 Now it's lots of pieces, if I go to Outline view... 23 24 00:01:03,379 --> 00:01:06,050 'Command Y', or 'Control Y' on a PC, it's actually vector. 24 25 00:01:06,737 --> 00:01:08,597 Now I need to color it. 25 26 00:01:08,629 --> 00:01:11,776 We're going to use our super resourceful Shape Builder Tool. 26 27 00:01:11,925 --> 00:01:13,175 We use it for lots of things. 27 28 00:01:13,354 --> 00:01:15,338 So with it open-- let's do a couple of things. 28 29 00:01:15,363 --> 00:01:17,612 Let's open up 'Window', 'Swatches'. 29 30 00:01:19,183 --> 00:01:21,424 What I've done for us in this tutorial is I've cleaned up-- 30 31 00:01:22,112 --> 00:01:24,909 remember the thing we learned in advanced color tips and tricks... 31 32 00:01:24,941 --> 00:01:27,799 I've cleaned up our Swatches panel just so we've got the basics in here. 32 33 00:01:28,026 --> 00:01:29,219 You might, to get started with... 33 34 00:01:29,244 --> 00:01:31,160 start mixing up colors that you want to color with. 34 35 00:01:31,393 --> 00:01:32,862 You can do them on the fly. 35 36 00:01:33,347 --> 00:01:34,917 Another thing you need to double check is... 36 37 00:01:34,942 --> 00:01:37,058 if we double click this tool, is that... 37 38 00:01:37,244 --> 00:01:40,432 you want to make sure Gap Detection is on small for the moment. 38 39 00:01:40,457 --> 00:01:43,058 We'll look at that in a bit more detail in a second. 39 40 00:01:43,158 --> 00:01:45,619 Make sure this-- I turned this off earlier in the course. 40 41 00:01:45,807 --> 00:01:48,876 Basically it's the color that appears just above your cursor. 41 42 00:01:48,901 --> 00:01:50,275 I'm not a big fan of it. 42 43 00:01:50,908 --> 00:01:52,736 So what I want you do now is click on it, and color it. 43 44 00:01:52,768 --> 00:01:54,220 So I'm going to pick a starting color. 44 45 00:01:55,682 --> 00:01:58,346 I'm going to click on it once, and it's filled with that kind of-- 45 46 00:01:58,371 --> 00:02:03,103 I should pick a slightly more specific color that you can actually see. 46 47 00:02:03,338 --> 00:02:04,877 So I've clicked on that, and it just fills it up. 47 48 00:02:05,830 --> 00:02:08,643 If you're running into problems with your hand drawn type... 48 49 00:02:08,675 --> 00:02:12,126 double click this, and play around with the Gap Detection. 49 50 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:15,502 As you can see in here, there's gaps that I've got. 50 51 00:02:15,527 --> 00:02:17,682 Is there any gaps in this one? There's a gap right there. 51 52 00:02:18,185 --> 00:02:19,260 At the top right. 52 53 00:02:19,285 --> 00:02:21,822 And because I've got Gap Detection on, it's going... 53 54 00:02:22,033 --> 00:02:23,916 it's going to fill that for you, don't worry about it. 54 55 00:02:24,533 --> 00:02:25,416 Thank you. 55 56 00:02:25,441 --> 00:02:28,017 Couple of things I want to do to speed this up. 56 57 00:02:28,042 --> 00:02:30,993 One is, the shortcut that you weren't sure... 57 58 00:02:31,018 --> 00:02:33,480 if that was useful back in an earlier video... 58 59 00:02:33,512 --> 00:02:37,183 remember, 'Command' on a Mac, or 'Control' on a PC, and 'H'. 59 60 00:02:37,535 --> 00:02:40,598 Gets rid of all of that Anchor Points everywhere. 60 61 00:02:40,753 --> 00:02:42,573 Just tidy it up, please. 61 62 00:02:43,121 --> 00:02:45,222 Another cool little shortcut when you're coloring is... 62 63 00:02:45,394 --> 00:02:47,394 can you see, just above my cursor there... 63 64 00:02:47,527 --> 00:02:51,457 there is actually three little squares. 64 65 00:02:51,543 --> 00:02:53,043 The middle one's slightly bigger. 65 66 00:02:53,347 --> 00:02:56,512 If I go over here, close to this panel-- you can zoom right in. 66 67 00:02:56,785 --> 00:02:58,926 Can you see, over here, my cursor... 67 68 00:02:59,019 --> 00:03:00,668 is telling me that's the one I have selected. 68 69 00:03:00,693 --> 00:03:02,371 But watch when I hit my left and right arrow. 69 70 00:03:04,371 --> 00:03:07,308 Can you see, I can kind of toggle through the available Swatches. 70 71 00:03:07,340 --> 00:03:09,003 So it kind of makes it nice to kind of... 71 72 00:03:09,230 --> 00:03:12,222 have one hand on your keyboard, to go, actually I want this to be this color. 72 73 00:03:12,438 --> 00:03:16,195 Then I'll go, a darker color in here for this. 73 74 00:03:16,220 --> 00:03:17,664 I'm just kind of using my left and right... 74 75 00:03:19,646 --> 00:03:20,514 to color the pieces. 75 76 00:03:20,539 --> 00:03:22,670 If you're finding it very hard to color, keep zooming in. 76 77 00:03:22,787 --> 00:03:27,162 I find, the closer you are zoomed, it's easier to get to some of these gaps. 77 78 00:03:27,187 --> 00:03:28,475 So I'm using left and right. 78 79 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:30,842 You can see how quick and easy it is to start coloring this thing. 79 80 00:03:31,154 --> 00:03:33,264 I don't want white, I want... 80 81 00:03:33,826 --> 00:03:35,881 this color here. 81 82 00:03:37,170 --> 00:03:38,521 I know it doesn't look that rich for a color. 82 83 00:03:39,807 --> 00:03:41,045 You don't have to use these Swatches... 83 84 00:03:41,070 --> 00:03:43,342 you can just use pre-mixed colors, make your own. 84 85 00:03:43,498 --> 00:03:44,506 Let's double click this. 85 86 00:03:44,531 --> 00:03:47,521 Pick a 'Swatch', I want a color for... 86 87 00:03:48,441 --> 00:03:50,199 my flower thing. 87 88 00:03:51,425 --> 00:03:53,058 And you can click in here. 88 89 00:03:53,738 --> 00:03:55,324 You can see, I just picked a random color. 89 90 00:04:00,050 --> 00:04:01,808 Really hard to get? Zoom right in. 90 91 00:04:02,058 --> 00:04:03,229 There we go. 91 92 00:04:05,261 --> 00:04:07,261 Come on, I get you, there you go. 92 93 00:04:07,699 --> 00:04:09,253 So that is how to color it. 93 94 00:04:09,278 --> 00:04:12,113 There's a couple of things-- you'll end up with a white border around the outside... 94 95 00:04:12,339 --> 00:04:13,761 which you may, or might not want. 95 96 00:04:14,049 --> 00:04:15,516 I'm going to hold down... 96 97 00:04:15,541 --> 00:04:18,666 the 'Alt' key on my PC, or 'Option' key on a Mac, and just delete it. 97 98 00:04:19,347 --> 00:04:23,112 Hopefully now, we're going to go to Transparency mode. 98 99 00:04:23,144 --> 00:04:24,698 That's a shortcut we haven't learned before. 99 100 00:04:24,906 --> 00:04:27,789 'Command-Shift-D', or 'Control-Shift-D'. 100 101 00:04:27,814 --> 00:04:29,977 Goes into that kind of more Photoshop style. 101 102 00:04:30,203 --> 00:04:32,821 Kind of sets the Opacity or Transparency. 102 103 00:04:32,853 --> 00:04:36,593 It allows you to know whether there's white in the background, or if it's black. 103 104 00:04:38,235 --> 00:04:41,703 Let's look at some of these other guys here... 104 105 00:04:42,367 --> 00:04:43,726 because it's going to run into a few more problems. 105 106 00:04:43,751 --> 00:04:47,430 I left a gap there on purpose, I've got some overlapping bits. 106 107 00:04:47,455 --> 00:04:48,872 So we want to tidy this up. 107 108 00:04:49,232 --> 00:04:51,247 So we've kind of moved on from live drawing... 108 109 00:04:51,272 --> 00:04:52,772 to kind of just coloring anything. 109 110 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,810 Remember, these aren't complete shapes. 110 111 00:04:54,843 --> 00:04:57,388 There's big holes, this guy just kind of overlaps this. 111 112 00:04:58,177 --> 00:04:59,240 Select them all. 112 113 00:04:59,740 --> 00:05:03,130 Let's grab 'Shift M' for our Shape Builder Tool. 113 114 00:05:04,805 --> 00:05:07,477 Gap Detection's going to be a little bit more important in this case... 114 115 00:05:07,502 --> 00:05:09,023 because you'll find things like... 115 116 00:05:09,055 --> 00:05:11,991 if I double click it, and make the Gap Detection large... 116 117 00:05:13,016 --> 00:05:16,234 can you see, it's detected a really large gap... 117 118 00:05:16,477 --> 00:05:20,086 over here and here, it's decided that, "Hey, I can fill that in." 118 119 00:05:20,414 --> 00:05:22,711 If you are watching this whole tutorial series... 119 120 00:05:22,736 --> 00:05:25,422 that drove me mad a little while ago. 120 121 00:05:28,055 --> 00:05:29,914 You might have to play around with Gap Detection... 121 122 00:05:30,039 --> 00:05:32,477 to work it out for your particular drawing. 122 123 00:05:32,945 --> 00:05:34,094 I'm going to click 'OK'. 123 124 00:05:35,773 --> 00:05:39,266 Let's say I want to do this again, I want the color over here. 124 125 00:05:39,660 --> 00:05:41,008 Go to the green color. 125 126 00:05:41,033 --> 00:05:43,992 And I'm going to color the face this color. 126 127 00:05:44,531 --> 00:05:47,117 The eyes are going to be this color. 127 128 00:05:48,062 --> 00:05:50,359 But I've got all these extra bits, they overlap. 128 129 00:05:50,492 --> 00:05:51,662 So what I can do is... 129 130 00:05:51,687 --> 00:05:54,204 hold down the 'Alt' key on a PC, or 'Option' key on a Mac... 130 131 00:05:54,229 --> 00:05:55,219 and just click on them. 131 132 00:05:55,414 --> 00:05:57,445 These blue bits get trimmed up. 132 133 00:05:57,758 --> 00:05:59,492 I love this, nice little circle. 133 134 00:06:00,016 --> 00:06:03,023 You decide on how detailed you want to get rid of these bits. 134 135 00:06:03,048 --> 00:06:03,890 I'm just holding 'Alt'. 135 136 00:06:03,915 --> 00:06:05,430 You can drag across these. 136 137 00:06:05,891 --> 00:06:08,484 So there's a kind of a pile of junk here. 137 138 00:06:08,509 --> 00:06:09,831 I'm going to hold down 'Alt'... 138 139 00:06:09,856 --> 00:06:11,860 drag across them all, get rid of all of that. 139 140 00:06:12,122 --> 00:06:13,207 Not what I wanted. 140 141 00:06:14,551 --> 00:06:17,269 It's getting rid of everything. Hold down 'Alt', and get rid of these guys. 141 142 00:06:17,442 --> 00:06:20,262 I said you can drag across them, it's not working very well. 142 143 00:06:21,486 --> 00:06:24,116 So I'm going to work my way through, and keep coloring . 143 144 00:06:24,141 --> 00:06:26,109 There is going to be no difference for this guy. 144 145 00:06:26,134 --> 00:06:27,960 What I'd like you to do now is... 145 146 00:06:27,985 --> 00:06:30,734 go through and do it by doing maybe some nice colors. 146 147 00:06:30,759 --> 00:06:32,976 I picked these colors, they seemed like they were going to be good. 147 148 00:06:33,077 --> 00:06:35,898 I even did a demo before I recorded this one, and it looked better. 148 149 00:06:38,663 --> 00:06:40,437 So remember, 'Window', 'Color Themes'... 149 150 00:06:40,462 --> 00:06:42,678 find some nicer color themes, I want you to fill it. 150 151 00:06:42,703 --> 00:06:44,968 Play with Gap Detection, delete the lines. 151 152 00:06:44,993 --> 00:06:48,546 Maybe get rid of this Stroke, add a cool Brush Stroke. 152 153 00:06:49,481 --> 00:06:52,083 I'd like to see what you've done, so either... 153 154 00:06:52,653 --> 00:06:54,466 stick it here as the class project. 154 155 00:06:55,346 --> 00:06:57,997 There'll be a proper space for it here on the website. 155 156 00:06:58,182 --> 00:06:59,580 Also, I'd love to see... 156 157 00:06:59,604 --> 00:07:04,431 just take a screen shot, and send it to me on Instagram or on Twitter. 157 158 00:07:05,007 --> 00:07:07,522 All right, I'll see you in the next video.