Drawing with Pencil Textures

You can draw a textured pencil line by selecting the pencil texture, then drawing.

There are two ways to select a pencil texture line. You can select a pencil texture palette, then one of its pencil texture swatches in the Colour view, as you would do to select a colour, or you can select a pencil texture from the current pencil texture palette in the Pencil Properties dialog.

Your pencil texture will be combined with the selected colour to make a textured colour line.

NOTE You can also draw with textured pencil lines with the Line, Rectangle and Ellipse tools.
  1. In the Tools toolbar, select the Pencil tool or press Alt + /.
  1. In the Colour view, select the colour with which you wish to draw.
  1. In the Colour view, click on the Show Pencil Texture Palettes button to display your pencil texture palettes.

  1. In the palette list, select the pencil texture palette containing the desired pencil texture.

  1. In the swatch list, select the pencil texture you want to use.

  1. In the Drawing view, draw a pencil line.

  1. In the Colour view, select the colour with which you wish to draw.
  1. In the Tools toolbar, select the Pencil tool or press Alt + /.
  1. In the Tool Properties view, click on the arrow button next to the stroke preview area to open the Pencil Properties dialog.

Stroke Preview

  1. In the Pencil Properties dialog, click on the Texture tab.

Pencil Preset Texture

NOTE The texture library in the Texture tab lists the same pencil textures as the ones in the currently selected pencil texture palette in the Colour view.

  1. In the Texture library, select a texture for the pencil.
  1. In the Drawing view, draw a pencil line.