Colouring different sections-Overspill and leak

[joshuat99837469]

Hi guys,

I am working on an image that I have drawn by hand and I have scanned into illustrator. But I am having problems with adding colour, I go to add colour to a certain section but the colour is leaking and overspilling into another section. The section highlighted in the second picture is where I want to colour but as you can see, other sections are also being selected. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance

[Monika Gause]

Please tell us step by step what you're doing using which tool. Please show before and after.

[joshuat99837469]

I use the fill tool to add colour but it spills over to other sections (as you can see in this picture), where I just want one section to be coloured.

[Monika Gause]

The Live Paint tool?

You could try and edit the Gap detection (Object > Live Paint > Gap Detection). Make the gap larger,

If that does not work, you will need to draw (invisible) paths to separate the areas.

[Mike_Gondek]

Alternatively  you can  colorize first in Photoshop, then convert to paths with image trae in Illustrator.

[barbara_a]

It looks like the area you are trying to color is not a closed shape. It extends past the area you ant to color. You would need to add to the shape where I've indicated with red, so that it is a completely closed shape.

If you don't want to close the shape, you could draw another separate closed shape and fill that.

Separate filled shape.

Separate shape put behind original drawing.