Drawing with the Brush Tool

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In the Drawing view, you can draw on any drawing layer type with the Brush tool.

  1. Select a drawing from the Drawing Thumbnails panel.
  1. In the Tools toolbar, select the Brush tool or press Alt + B.
  1. In the Tool Properties view, set the Maximum Size to the desired brush size.
NOTE If you are drawing with a mouse, your strokes will always be at their maximum size. If you are using a pressure-sensitive tablet, your strokes will vary in size depending on the pressure of your pen, ranging between 25% to 100% of the maximum size.
  1. In the Colour view, click a colour swatch to select a colour.

Select Colour in Colour View

  1. In the Drawing or Camera view, start drawing.
TIPS

  • If you press and hold the Shift key before or while drawing, you will draw a straight line.

  • If you press and hold the Spacebar key while drawing a straight line, the angle of your line will lock. If you are using a pressure-sensitive tablet, you can draw over your line to adjust its thickness.

  • If you press and hold the Shift and Alt keys before or while drawing, you will draw a straight horizontal or vertical line.

  • If you press and hold the Ctrl (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ (macOS) key while drawing, your drawing stroke will turn into a closed shape.

  • If you press and hold Alt before drawing a stroke, and start drawing near existing artwork, the start of your drawing stroke will connect to that artwork.

  • If you press and hold Alt while drawing a stroke, and end your drawing stroke near existing artwork, the end of that drawing stroke will connect to that artwork.

  1. In the Drawing Thumbnails panel, select a bitmap drawing.
  1. In the Tools toolbar, select the Brush tool or press Alt + B.
  1. In the Tool Properties view, set the Maximum Size to the desired brush size. If you are drawing with a mouse, your strokes will always be at their maximum size. If you are using a pressure-sensitive tablet, your strokes will vary in size depending on the pressure of your pen, ranging between 25% to 100% of the maximum size by default.
  1. In the Colour view, select a colour.

Bitmap Colour View

  1. If you would prefer using Red/Green/Blue sliders, you can switch between HSV and RGB sliders by doing one of the following:
  • Select Colour > Bitmap Colour Sliders > HSV Sliders or RGB Sliders.
  • Right-click on the colour sliders and select RGB Sliders or HSV Sliders.

RGB Slider

NOTE Although you can use colours from your colour palette to paint on a bitmap layer, colours used in a bitmap drawing layer are not linked to their colour swatch in the palette. This means that, contrary to vector drawing, updating the colours in your colour palette will not update your bitmap drawings with the new colours.

  1. In the Camera or Drawing view, start drawing.

Bitmap drawing

TIPS

  • If you press and hold the Shift key before or while drawing, you will draw a straight line.

  • If you press and hold the Spacebar key while drawing a straight line, the angle of your line will lock. If you are using a pressure-sensitive tablet, you can draw over your line to adjust its thickness.

  • If you press and hold the Shift and Alt keys before or while drawing, you will draw a straight horizontal or vertical line.

  • If you press and hold the Ctrl (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ (macOS) key while drawing, your drawing stroke will turn into a closed shape.