[Niall Mccormack]

>Outline stroke is very useful, as it changes a single stroked vector path, into a filled shape. Once you >have a filled shape there are many more things you can do to that object such as a gradient mesh.

Thanks for the answer!

>The real professional designs ts in Illustrator don’t come from canned effects in pull down >menus(anyone can do that), but using your creative mind and the extensive tools Illustrator has to >manually create custom design.

No shit sherlock!