Painting the logo

In Adobe Illustrator, you can paint both the fill and the stroke of shapes with colors, patterns, or gradients. You can even apply various brushes to the path of the shapes. For this logo, you'll use a simple method to reverse the default fill and stroke of your shapes, painting the fill with black and the stroke with white.

1.
Select the selection tool () in the toolbox, and then click the eraser shape to select it.
2.
Click the Swap Fill and Stroke button in the toolbox.

Select eraser shape.

Swap fill and stroke.

Result

The black ...

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