The Good ol' Pencil Tool

[flashhabit]

Adobe Flash Pro CS5: Pencil Tool:

I have figured out how to use the straight, curved and ink settings. But is there any way in hell I can "fill in" my drawings with color. Is it setting, or can you just plain not do it?

[CyanSandwich]

You can fill pencil tool drawings. But it's a pain in the ass, like with line drawings. You just have to make sure everything is connected up perfectly before you can fill it.

I haven't used cs5 but I can't imagine it's any different.

[flashhabit]

At 8/12/11 09:36 PM, sandwich-eater wrote: You can fill pencil tool drawings. But it's a pain in the ass, like with line drawings. You just have to make sure everything is connected up perfectly before you can fill it.

I haven't used cs5 but I can't imagine it's any different.

Thank you for your time.

[fluffkomix]

btw two easy ways to fill with pencil/line tool

1: In the tools section of your screen when the fill tool is selected, at the bottom you should see a circle, possibly with a small gap at the top. If you click that you'll be able to see a few settings such as fill small gap or fill large gap. When filling, start with the smallest and work your way up to large until it works (this looks better than just going straight to large). keep in mind this setting scales with your magnification so a small gap at 50% may be a large gap at 100%

2: Connect your lines. This seems completely obvious but isn't always easy. No matter how thick you set your line to be, if you were to set it to 0.25, that's how flash sees it, so while it looks like it is touching, it really isn't. Before attempting to fill, always set all your lines to 0.25, then connect any non-connected lines

hope this helps

[SirAlex]

May I suggest JohnnyUtah's Drawing lines tutorial