Coloring In Non-Contained Areas

[RSS705]

Hi there,

I'm still pretty new to Illustrator, and was hoping to get some insight on how to easily fill in non-contained areas. I know there's the Live Paint Bucket which is great, but it doesn't work very well for the art I need color. Due to the brushes used, the areas are not contained (sample image below).

I have the full adobe suite, so if there's a better program to do this in (photoshop) I am open to that to, just need some pointing in the right direction as I'm a bit stuck.

Thank you in advance,

Rob

[Monika Gause]

You can either:

- expand the brushes: Object > Expand appearance

After that it won't be easily editabl anymore

- Make a duplicate: make a copy of the layer, lock the original layer, delete the brushstrokes from the paths and then use live paint.

[Jacob Bugge · Accepted solution]

RSS,

How about a large (enough) fill/nostroke rectangle behind the brushed path, then a copy of the brushed path behind that again, then with both selected Pathfinder>Intersect shape areas?

[RSS705]

I went with this technique to maintain the flexibility, and it worked pretty well so far for some basic color filling.

Thank you!

[Jacob Bugge]

You are welcome, RSS.