Drawing with the Brush Tool

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

on a vector layer

How to draw with the Brush tool

  1. In the Timeline or Xsheet view, select the cell on which you want to draw.

  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.

How to draw with the Brush tool on a bitmap layer
  1. In the Timeline view, add a bitmap drawing layer.
  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

NOTE: You can hold Ctrl (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ (macOS) while drawing to force your stroke to be a closed shape. This will automatically draw a straight line between the beginning and the end of your stroke.

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