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Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
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Posted by Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points

Flood Filling in Illustrator?

I am trying the extra credit project in Adobe Illustrator Foundations, and this is what I have come up with so far:

http://englishteachertodd.com/wolf%20layout.pdf

Maybe I'm a little nervous about starting my first project, but I'm drawing a blank on how to start flood filling/coloring the drawing. Is there some kind of a paint bucket somewhere in Adobe that I can just use to start filling in the stripes of the shirt, the legs, etc.? I don't recall Mat saying anything about a paint bucket-like tool that will change fill colors in a drawing.

Also, I'm thinking that I want to make this a layout for a blog and am curious to know what file extension to save the drawing as (PDF? SVG? PNG? JPEG?) so that it looks great with whatever CSS I use to fill in the bottom where the blog writing would go. Any advice/recommendations would be awesome.

Thanks so much in advance for your help!

Sincerely,

Todd

Joseph Greevy
Joseph Greevy
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Joseph Greevy
Joseph Greevy
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I don't know about the main question but svg is much nicer to work with on the web so use that

2 Answers

Kristen Law
Kristen Law
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I'm not sure how far you are in the Illustrator Foundations course, but there is a video under Adding Color and Type that addresses how to fill in shapes with color: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/illustrator-foundations-3/adding-color-and-type/painting-objects-and-adding-graphic-fills-2

Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points
Todd Squitieri
Todd Squitieri
8,001 Points

Hi Joseph and Kristen,

Thanks for the replies! Both are incredibly helpful.

Kristen- I did watch this video, but wasn't sure if the flood fill tool for this video could be applied to cartoon-like drawings. In any case, I'll give it a whirl. =)

Thanks so much again,

Todd