in a previous tutorial video for Adobe Illustrator
we talked about the difference between a stroke and a fill again just to reiterate
that
a fill is the inside color of a closed shape
and the stroke is the outside outline
so in this particular wing we have here we have a light grey fill
and a black outline but as we look at this
we'll notice that we also have some white colors and those provide the highlights
and then we have some darker gray for the shadows so let's talk about using
more sophisticated color techniques
in Adobe Illustrator as you can see I reset my
essentials work space to show the color swatches
colored ID and gradients panels in addition
I've added this other panel called cooler and you can find that by going to
window
extensions and choosing cooler, cooler is basically
a color web app
and it comes with creative cloud or you can get it actually on the web by going to
Cooler.adobe.com
and this allows you to create color schemes
so you can choose your colors you can do a different color rules let's say I
do complementary colors
and kinda move it around here and it gives you a whole color palette
in addition I can go to explore and I can explore popular themes newest themes
and then if I were to sign in I can go in and create
my own things, the cool thing about using cooler
is that when you have this open and you have to be connected to the Internet
you'll see a bunch of these themes other people have can created
and you can kinda search here based on most popular the newest
and you can even search so you can search for your particular user name
and all the things that you created under your username will pop up
so the cool thing again about this is that with that cooler panel selected
I can click this add selected theme to swatches let's say I do like this vintage
Ralph Lauren
I can click that in all of a sudden my swatches panel
it'll probably take a second but a group will show up with all those colors
and if I create my own group I can eventually
click on that group and then click upload from swatch panel to cooler
community
so if I create a group of colors here that I really like and I want to
keep
then I can definitely do that as well so when it comes to setting up my workspace
once I got all those panels in place
I went up to the workspace quick menu and chose new workspace and renamed it
color
so anytime I'm just working on coloring something I can go to this workspace and
it's gonna be a lot
easier for me so at this point if I want to change the fill color something
I can click on it and let's take a look here and I can choose from these basic
swatches that are gonna come up from most every project
but if I click for small that's not exactly what I was going for
but I also don't like the fact that I can only pick from the certain amount
of
swatches, now these are not the only ones it's just that there are so many
that Adobe doesn't really want to put them all up there for you
so you have a couple options you can go to this library panel
or this library button and scroll down here and there's a bunch of color libraries
so let's say I wanted to do
on color properties and I want to do bright
then we have a bunch a color groups that we can use
and I can drag them over onto my swatches panel
and then these become quickly available for me and my swatches panel
in addition I can start creating my own color groups
so I'll click the new color group folder and I'll call this favorite colors
and then I will do
lets see from selected swatches and click OK
and it just has a empty color group right now
but in the color panel I can double-click the fill color
and let's try to find some my favorite colors
so I really kinda like this dark teal color
and oops this needs to be on CMYK,
so now I can see that dark teal color and I can come down to my swatches panel
and click new swatch
and that's gonna allow me to call this dark teal
and you don't have to name it but I like to do it so click OK
and now that becomes a new swatch my swatches panel
now I can drag that you can see the little drop line
and I can drop it into my favorite colors group and as I hover over you
can see the name
now if you don't like naming them necessarily so
lets like this kinda like this a reddish
dark pink so if I like this color if I hold the ALT
or the Option key on a keyboard and click new swatch
it's just going to add the new swatch and skip that whole naming
dialog box so now I have a color group with my favorite colors
so let's talk about how we can possibly recolor this so that we can still have
the depth in the style that was drawn into these wings
but without feeling it was a whole specific color
so go ahead and undo
oops, nope I don't want to do that, so this wing is just
filled with color and we don't want to do that let's talk about this wing
so we can turn this into a live paint group that is going to be the easiest
option for us so if I go over here under the shape builder tool I can click the
live paint bucket
and as a click it's gonna tell you you have to click with the live paint bucket
and then paint the areas between the paths so you can even do the method that
shown here
or I can click on the object go to object
Live Paint make and now I'm just going to click off so its not highlighted
now in and grab that live paint bucket tool I can start painting
anywhere inside if these wings and the cool thing is let's say i'm on this bright
color group
and I start painting with orange as you can see
the live paint bucket has swatches in upper left hand corner
and if I use my arrow keys on the keyboard I can start switching between
all those colors so far the sudden I want to do some green
I can definitely do green that way then I can switch to purple
and start painting some purple and then I can switch over
back to this orange and it's only going through the swatches that are in this group
if I was up here and again watch is a use my arrow keys
its gonna go through all the swatches in that particular
open free-form group
alright so this just so you know you can paint more than just
solid colors if you go to the swatches library there's definitely some
gradients
so go to gems and jewels, and lets say I wanna paint
some gradient colors in there and then I can also go to patterns
and let's just do dots so we can see on that'll work
and for dots I can click in here and its going to add some dots
to my particular wings so that those ones are showing that great but
okay so what if we don't want to make this a lie P
object well we have four colors in this particular
in each of these particular wings which by the way were created by vector pack
dotnet
so when I click on this I can actually recolor the artwork
when I zoom in you can see that we have four colors we have a light grey
then we have the dark gray for shadows we have white for highlights and then the
strokes are made up a black
so if I click this object in the top Options bar
there's a recolor artwork button so i'll click on that
and it's trying to tell you that these are the four colors that you currently have
in your document
now you can change these colors by saying OK for this particular gray color
I want it to be
let's say I want to be blue now it doesn't look like a really
did anything so lets try that one more time
and click OK and it's still not going to do anything well what we need to do
is we need to come over here too edit because all of our little color stops
are actually still on the grey and blue so now when I pull these two out
you should start to see some changes so now this blue
is relating to that dark grey for the shadows and this yellow is relating to
that light gray that makes up the majority of the wing
so if I come back to assign now you can see the dark grey areas I've told them to
be blue and the like gray I told it to be green
what about the black and the white areas let's double click here and it says do
you want to add a new color
so I can say yes and it does it to the black for some reason
so you gonna try and it's not going to do anything the first time
but again I'm gonna try it one more time and all the sudden it does change it
second double click here to add one for the white and again
lets try do kind of a garish color
so you can see what's happening now that's not very pretty
but it's the easy way to give assigned other colors too
the four basic gray colors that came with this project
so I can go back in and I can move these color stops around
and try to change what my object looks like
in anyone's I don't need I can come here and do remove color tool
so lets say I wanna remove that one and then I can definitely link
all of my harmony colors which means I can come up here
and do these colors theories are color rules so if I wanna do right compliment
thats going to make sure that they're all linked so whichever base color
I grab its gonna automatically turn all the other colors
in two colors that are considered a rite compliment
so again I can come here and I can choose other libraries I can apply the
bright styles here
and then if I come back to the Assign
you'll see randomly change the color order so it's choosing from those
particular colors in that library
so I can just randomly keep doing that
so the reason why the recolor artwork is really great
is you might get through a whole project and you might have colored and the way
you thought was good at the time
and then he starts realize that some things just aren't working
and it's going to be really tedious to go through every single piece
and makes you click on it and change that the fill color
so this is a good way to come here in assign new colors for colors you currently
have
artwork did just get a chance a plan and see what it might look like
it's not gonna hurt anything if you cancel it'll go back to the original way
the artwork was supposed to look