The best solution I've found is to use live paint, which allows you to easily select any color areas that spill outside of a line (because live paint identifies those areas as separate entities). ![]() It doesn't seem there's any way to do this in Illustrator (using a freehand style of drawing, with a Wacom tablet or the like). This is especially important for cartoon-style drawings where you want sharp shadows or highlights. Let's say I want to add a shadow or highlight to a sphere - I select the fill color of the sphere, and then can drag my brush along the perimiter of the selection, which keeps my shadow entirely inside the sphere. When one paints in Photoshop, it's common to use the magic wand (or some selection tool) to select a region so that you cannot paint outside of it. So, at long last, I'm resorting to the forums. ![]() I'm a longtime Illustrator user, and have yet to figure out an elegant solution for perhaps my most common illustrator task.
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