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98 Part II: Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork the stroke is the line, and the fill is the inside-the-line that you aren’t supposed to color outside of (but you did anyway because you weren’t about to let your parents stifle your creativity!). Color is a loose term here: It can mean a solid color, a pattern, or (in the case of fills) a gradient. In Figure 5-1, you can see a variety of paths with different strokes and fills applied to them. Figure 5-1: Paths with different fills and strokes applied to them. Although a stroke can be any thickness, it always uses a. | 98 Part II Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork the stroke is the line and the fill is the inside-the-line that you aren t supposed to color outside of but you did anyway because you weren t about to let your parents stifle your creativity . Color is a loose term here It can mean a solid color a pattern or in the case of fills a gradient. In Figure 5-1 you can see a variety of paths with different strokes and fills applied to them. Figure 5-1 Paths with different fills and strokes applied to them. Although a stroke can be any thickness it always uses a path as its center. And although you can stylize your strokes with solid colors or patterns you can t use a gradient. Patterns and gradients are special combinations of colors read more about them in the upcoming section All the colors in the rainbow and then some. Remember that a path surrounds the area where you put the color. This area is the fill because um it s filled with color . Fills and strokes can obscure the boundaries of your paths especially when you have very thick strokes on your paths such as the S-shaped purple pattern in Figure 5-1. To temporarily hide all fills and strokes choose View1 h hitline. This shows your artwork as just the paths with all strokes and fills hidden. You can still edit the artwork as you would any other time. The only difference is that you can t see fills and strokes. To show all the colors again choose View1 tl review. You have many ways to create and modify fill and stroke color in Illustrator but the quickest and easiest way to apply them is by using the Fill and Stroke boxes in the Tools panel which looks remarkably like what you see in Figure 5-2. You can change a fill or a stroke but not both at the same time. You decide whether to change the fill or the stroke by selecting an object and then clicking the Fill solid box or the Stroke bordered box. The box you click comes to the front after that every color change you make is applied to whichever one you chose . . . until .