Pencil Tool

The tool is perfect for drawing freeform lines with a hard edge, and is used for sketching and digital inking.

As you draw, nodes are created automatically along the stroke which can optionally be smoothed as you draw by enabling the Stabiliser feature. A Sculpt mode also lets you reform or continue your pencil stroke at any time, although you can use the Node Tool to edit too. When using a combination of sculpting and Use Fill, you can form conjoined pencil strokes that can take a fill with the stroke's concave area.

Line styles (e.g., dashed or brush texture) can be applied using the Stroke Studio. For brush textures, pick a brush from the Brushes Studio.

Settings

The following brush settings can be adjusted from the context toolbar:

Sculpt—When enabled, any selected pencil stroke can be reshaped or continued; the former by drawing new start and end stops anywhere along the pencil stroke, the latter by drawing from either stroke end node.
Width—the line thickness in pixels. Type directly in the text box or drag the pop-up slider to set the value.
Stroke—tap to choose the stroke colour. You can also set this via the Colour Studio.
Controller—controls whether the brush is sensitive to real pressure ('Pressure') or speed of finger movement ('Velocity' or 'Inverse Velocity'). Select 'None' to use neither.
Use Fill—When enabled, the concave area of the line is filled with the colour you select from the revealed Fill colour swatch as you draw.
Stabiliser—enables stroke stabilisation using either a Rope stabiliser or Window stabiliser mode; the former drags the stroke end by a 'rope' to smooth the stroke but lets you introduce sharp corners at increasing rope Length (radius) values by redirecting the slackened rope; the latter will smooth the stroke by averaging sampled input positions within a Window whose size is configurable.

Settings

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