Draw inside

[defaultirul883twe97]

Hi Community!

Very new to illustrator and trying to recolour a logo- I want to create a colour fade using various coloured skin tones across this lettering. I believe the first step is to "draw inside" the image, but when I try and do this the "draw inside" option is disabled- there are no other images so I don't think it's a grouping issue.

Any suggestions please?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Illustrator uses vectors and you show an image.

You need to convert it to vectors to use it in Illustrator.

With the Pen tool or with Image Trace.

[defaultirul883twe97]

Thank you so much!!