traced out phot on marker paper vector portrait live painting Graphic design

If I understand you well, you want:

- use monochromatic Live Paint to paint this portrait;

- put it big in the top square and repeat to the small ones in the bottom line. Is it so?

As far as I can see, your image now is a raster one clipped by Clipping Mask. Try to start from scratch.

1. Make sure that you traced the image after the import (Properties > Image Trace > Expand).

2. Ungroup the expanded object, select all its parts, create a Live Paint group (Tools > Live Paint Tool), and fill the needed parts using grayscale swatches.

3. Copy the portrait and transform copies as needed for the small squares. Move the copies down.

4. Select the template rectangles and move them up in the stack (Ctrl+Shift+])

5. Select each rectangle with its portrait instance and make Clipping Mask (Ctrl+7).

If I did not understand well and you need something else, please, describe the problem a bit clearer.

Paul,

As I (mis)understand it, you have used a photo as a template and drawn it on paper with ink, then scanned it, which means that it is now a raster image.

You need to turn it into vector artwork to use Live Paint, and you can do that with Image Trace:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html

You may also look here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeillustrator/2013/07/image-trace-in-illustrator-a-tutorial-and-guide.html

Always expand after image tracing to get things to work.

Select it/them and Object>Image Trace>Expand.

Can we assume you've used Image Trace to get a vector art version of your traced image?

I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what you want to do.