Drawing shapes using any tool ignores colour and stroke settings
Drawing a new shape either using the automated tools of square/ellipsis etc or when drawing when the pen tool, the stroke stays the setting of a previous setting, despite what is displaying. Likewise, the colour shows the 'correct' setting but retains the setting of a previous setting.
I have closed Illustrator and restarted the application but it's still happening.
Operating system: macOS Monterey version 12.4
Adobe Illustrator version: 26.3.1
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Kristen, hi! Welcome to UV.
To understand what is happening, you have to open Appearance panel and study the Layers panel.The 'Arrows' layer obviously has strokes inside, but then another stroke applied to the level itself, covering all its children. You can see it Layers — the top layer has the ring target marker filled, which indicates it has a specific appearance applied, and so does the every separate arrow the group has.
However, you don’t have the layer selected, but one object, the circle — so you see its reddish stroke color, and not the gray one the layer has.
Click the ring target to focus it, open Appearance, and click Remove Appearance button.Assigning appearance to a layer is a powerful technique, but it's easy enough to mess things app, if you accidentally misclick and target a layer instead of just selecting it.
Please comment back if it helps.
