Work Brighter And Faster With Live Paint | Creative Bloq

When I started creating my drawings, I would draw every shape on the screen with the Pen tool.

This was the cleanest way I knew how to create my images. I soon found the Live Paint tool, however, which helped me to fill outline shapes with colour very easily. The Live Paint tool enables artists to colour without worrying about objects being in front of or behind each other, making it simple to transform a line drawing into a clean, vibrant, print-ready file.

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