• Adobe Illustrator

  Hi there! I’m having a problem regarding a simple feature in Illustrator CC.

  Posted by Alina Ome on February 15, 2014 at 9:01 am

  I’ve been raking my brains trying to figure out why I can’t add a gradient to a brush stroke. As soon as I select the drawn brush stroke and I try playing around with the gradient, the whole stroke goes black…This is driving me nuts. And the weird thing the gradient can be applied only to the basic brush type…not the one that I need unfortunately. I’m not sure why that is…I can only add colour to the brush stroke but no gradient sadly. Is there something I’m doing wrong or a setting which prevents this from happening? Thanks

  Spencer Sy replied 12 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Spencer Sy

  February 19, 2014 at 12:26 am

  Hi Alina. Hope this solves the problem. First select the brush stroke. Then Try going to “Object” then click on “Expand Appearance”. Then apply the desired gradient from the swatches panel.

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