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When in Draw Inside mode, new objects added into the cliff object are clipped
2 Preparing objects for Draw Inside mode with Shape Builder.
To speed up the
drawing process, Leavens used the Pen tool and drew the large, swooping
tree in multiple pieces. In order to employ the same shading method he used
for the other objects, he selected the various overlapping pieces of the tree.
He then chose Shape Builder (Shift-M) and click-dragged over the overlap-
ping objects, quickly combining them into one large object, which he shaded
using the method mentioned in step one.
Leavens used Shape Builder subtractively to create the cactus. To make the
cactus look broken and parched, he used the Pen tool to draw jagged forms
on top of a pair of the cactus's branches. He then selected the cactus and the
