Hi,
I created a shape with the pencil. I edited it by moving the little squares and their handles. It is closed (as far as I can tell).
Yet, when I select it and try to apply a colour (with the bucket), nothing happens.
The workaround is to start with a shape, such as a square. Then “convert to curve”, add points and redraw the desired object.
But it would be nice to be able to apply a colour to a shape drawn with the pencil.
Please tell me how to do this.
You must use the brush for filled freehand lines.
If your shape consists of separate line objects, you will have to combine them into a single line object first. This is a messy job at times (particularly with a large number of line segments where the flow of line directions do not match). Go slow. “Undo” is your friend.
@ Hrbrgr : I don’t have a brush, I just have the “fill with colour” button or “format/area”.
@keme1 : No, I draw continuously with the pencil. I have only one line, which finishes where it started. And I didn’t know the line segments were oriented…
The points are added by the program. When I let go of the mouse button, I can click on the “show construction dots” button and I see my shape in editable format.
When you select any drawn shape and view the individual points defining the shape (for multiline objects, Edit - Points), you will see one point with a slightly larger handle. That is the starting point, the root.
Upon testing the connect function, I observed that some connections are created from the end of one line to the start of the next, but start-to-start and end-to-end also happens.
It seems that connections are not created on “nearest match”, but possibly based on some left-to-right/top-down sorting of the objects.
I was mistaken in the detail. Still, automated “connect” is sometimes messy. Fortunately not an issue for you, but I thought I’d still clean up my mistake. Pardon the noise 
Select the freeform, choose menu Format - Area - Area - Color…
But, instead of the Freeform Line tool, you can choose Freeform Line, Filled tool, then you can select the fill color with the Fill Collor (bucket) icon.
