Hey guys, fairly new to illustrator so give me a break if this is super easy but it's doing my head in.
Ive used the pen tool to trace a design and I want to keep some areas transparent so it's as if it's been written with one stroke. The inside of the O and the E aren't staying transparent and just changing to a full colour when I click no fill.
I've tried merging all shapes but that creates one big stencil of the whole this.
ive attached some images to show what I mean. Please help. The top word is how I want it, but without copy and pasting the insides and changing to white!!
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Dylan,
If the straightforward ways of Pathfinder>Minus front and making a Compound Path (Ctrl/Cmd+8) fail to work, you can try the Shape Builder.
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-shapes-shape-builder-tool.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/atv/cs5-tutorials/creating-complex-art-with-the-shape-builder-tool.html
You could also Group the white paths, select everything, and turn it into an Opacity Mask (Transparency palette) with Clip unticked and Invert Mask ticked, but
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