The Paintbrush tool is located in your toolbox. Using the Paint Brush Tool to Paint Freehand We will select the blue one above.Īs you can see, it is now added to our Brushes panel.Īnd it is also added to our selected path. Now, click a brush in the library panel to add it to the Brushes panel. The library is displayed in another panel. Now, click the Brushes libraries Menu button on the panel, point to a Brush category, and then select a library. To change the Brushes panel view, click the Options button in the Brushes panel and choose which category of brush you want to see. Now, select a path in your object using a selection tool. Go to Window>Brushes to open the Brushes panel. Illustrator comes with built-in brushes that you can use, but, of course, you can create your own as well. In Illustrator, there are five categories of brushes: calligraphic, art, bristle, scatter, and pattern. With the Brushes panel, you can draw with different brush tips, draw freestyle lines, shapes, patterns, and even textures. The Live Paint Selection tool lets you select sections of a Live Paint Group to paint.Ĭlick the Live Paint Selection tool, and then click in a section of your Live Paint Group.
The Live Paint Selection tool is grouped with the Live Paint Bucket. Then, hover your mouse above a path in the Live Paint Group. To use the Live Paint Bucket tool for strokes, make sure that it is set in Live Paint Bucket Options. When you move your mouse over the Live Paint Group, you will see the swatch (if you have that selected in options) and a little paint bucket. Make sure you have your options set for Paint Fills. Use the Live Paint Bucket ToolĬlick on the Live Paint Bucket tool in the toolbox. You can also decide the width of the highlight.Ĭlick OK when you are finished setting options. As you see above, ours are in red, which matches the options box below. Next, select the color that the paths to be painted will be highlighted in. The Cursor Swatch Preview is shown below for the fill. If we would have checked strokes instead, this is what would have happened.Ĭheck the Cursor Swatch Preview if you want to see an instant preview of what the Live Paint will do. As you saw in the prior snapshot, the Live Paint Bucket filled our shapes. If you want it to paint strokes, check the Paint Strokes box. If you want the tool to paint the fill, check the box. Setting Options for Live Paint Bucket Tool.ĭouble click the Live Paint Bucket to set its options. This makes the paths into a Live Paint group. If using bitmap images, go to Object>Live Trace>Make and Convert to Live Paint.įor other objects, you can go to Object>Expand. Then, turn the paths into a Live Paint Group. If you cannot get an object to convert to a Live Paint Group using the steps above, then go to Type>Create Outlines. Use the Live Paint Bucket Tool (grouped with the Shape Builder Tool), and then click the selected object. For our example, we are going to use these rectangles. The Live Paint Bucket tool lets you click an area formed by intersecting lines to apply fill (also known as face) and stroke (known as edge) attributes.Ĭreate a drawing. What is more, you can trace a raster image and convert it into a Live Paint group to paint. It is simply a matter of turning paths into these Live Paint Groups so you can paint them.
Live Paint allows you to fill in open or closed paths by creating Live Paint Groups.
#Live paint bucket how to
In this article, we are going to learn how to use paint and all the various brush tools as well. After you use the Pencil tool or any other drawing tool to create a path, you can then use Live Paint or the Live Paint Bucket tool to convert those paths into a Live Paint Group so that you can paint.
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