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June 29, 2024
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Pencil tool has no stroke.

Hello, when i use pencil tool it automatically has no stroke. It's transparent. 

Mr KirotomoCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 2, 2025

creative explorer, it's a standart behavior on Pencil tool - then Fille new pencil strokes in OFF.

If you turn off this option and start draw, the Illy need to set fill to none - otherwise it fill the foreground color. Best regards, Kioto Mr.

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justlearn
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 25, 2024

@TOLGA38021460on60  that's weird. After selecting the pencil tool, for me, it's a black stroke with 100% opacity on. You could just stroke it yourself? If you also hit 'd' n your keyboard, it would automatically color the fill with white and stroke to black...but once you start to draw with the pencil tool, the white fill will change to none! 

 



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Mr KirotomoCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 2, 2025

creative explorer, it's a standart behavior on Pencil tool - then Fille new pencil strokes in OFF.

If you turn off this option and start draw, the Illy need to set fill to none - otherwise it fill the foreground color. Best regards, Kioto Mr.

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Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 29, 2024

And when you apply a stroke, does it then keep that for the next strokes? 

In the menu of the Appearance panel, is "New art has basic appearance" turned on?

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Anubhav M
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 24, 2024

Hello @TOLGA38021460on60,

We understand that technical issues can be frustrating. I hope Monika's suggestions helped resolve the problem. If not, kindly share more details, like the exact version of the OS/Illustrator and a screen recording of the problem (https://adobe.ly/3YhxbEb) so we can investigate this further.


Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Thanks,

Anubhav

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