[Dmitriy]

I am taking a illustrator class in college and this pen tool is so confusing, I have figures that need to be traced and no instructions.
The problem is that I have right now is that for some reason the pen tool creates weird shapes by covering the design when dragging instead of just a line. Because of that, I cannot see the design, it wasn't like that before, it was just individual lines.

I got adobe Illustrator CS5 on mac.
Here is the attachment of what I mean:
Spoiler (Click to View)[img]http://s11.postimg.org/kezccg4jn/Screen_Shot_2014_04_08_at_11_59_29_PM.png[/img]
Would appreciate help to fix it.
Thank!

[Motivаtion]

https://gyazo.com/2276989b164d6222516e33e3c7cf927c

Where it has the black square, click on it and change to something like this

https://gyazo.com/7b7a6e12f7c074e77e2ae3e1bd808086

[Dmitriy]

https://gyazo.com/2276989b164d6222516e33e3c7cf927c

Where it has the black square, click on it and change to something like this

https://gyazo.com/7b7a6e12f7c074e77e2ae3e1bd808086

Thanks man that worked! It no longer fills with colors just what I needed.

[Bad Meets Evil]

You can also just turn down the opacity of the layer so you can see what the fill will look like but can also see a bit of what is below it.