What is pencil tool of Adobe Flash in Animate?

[DimenErno]

I learned animating through Adobe Flash and recently moved onto Adobe Animate. I thought that Animate's pencil tool will be same as the Flash's one. So I tried shading a character by pencil tool but apparently it just colors everything inside the stroke. I wanted to color only the crescent part of the drawing. What am I supposed to do? (Sorry about such a noob question...but I just can't find it on the internet)

[_keyframer · Accepted solution]

The Pencil tool is essentially the same in that it draws strokes. That's all it does. When you say "shading" what do you mean exactly? I hear "shading" and I think of a gradual change in tone which is not what the Pencil does or ever did. it simply draws strokes that are a solid color.