How to change the colour of a segment of a path

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December 6, 2021
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Bit of an illustrator newbie here. I'm trying to colour the jumper black, but I therefore want the lines around the jumper section to be white so they contrast.

Here's the original:

And here's as far as I've gotten, feel like I'm just going in circles now!

TIA

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michelew83603738

Community Expert

When you use Image Trace, only fills are created, not strokes even though they look like lines in your original drawings. It is very confusing to a newbie. I might be stirring the pot, but you might have more success if once you finish your Image Trace if you then do Live Trace so that you can then color in as wanted.

John Mensinger

Community Expert

The "wrinkles" are not stroked paths, they are filled paths. You've applied white stroke, but their black fill remains.

You haven't explained how you've gone about filling the jumper with black, but using the same method, you should be able to fill the wrinkles with white.