Making a Live Paint Group from Pen Tool

Question

I'm trying to create a Live Paint Group from the highlighted area. I had an artist construct this dove and I need to color the body of it. However, the only portions I can color are the actual pen strokes themselves. How do I create a live paint group from the highlighted group of pen strokes so that the actual highlighted BODY of the bird is the group itself? Whenever I create the group it only makes the pen strokes editable while the body remains empty. I've tried to close off the gaps in between the pen strokes by manipulating the anchor points on the ends and connecting them to one another but that only gave me weird segments of live paint groups.

rcraighead · Accepted Answer

I would not use Live Paint for this if you are only filling with a single color or gradient.

Duplicate the selected portion of the artwork.
Pathfinder>Unite
Select only resulting outside path (you may need to cut path(s) at mirrored center and join only the outside path).
Send resulting, closed path to back and fill.

PrepressPro1 · Answer

Live paint will not allow you to fill in the white space with a color unless you make it into a closed path before you make the art Live Paint. Looks like you need to join the paths at the Top of the bird's head and the bottom of the tail. You might try to paint this with the Blob Brush.

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