Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book®

Using a fill color with brushes

When you apply a brush to an object's stroke, you can also apply a fill color to paint the interior of the object with a color. When you use a fill color with a brush, the brush objects appear on top of the fill color in places where the fill and the brush objects overlap.

Choose fill color.

Draw with paintbrush.

Brush objects appear on top of fill

Now you'll use the paintbrush tool to draw a canoe at the edge of the grass ...