Pencil, Line, Paint Brush Tools

 Pencil Tool (Y)

The Pencil draws Strokes and uses Stroke Properties

Options:

Drawing Mode

·        Straighten will straighten as much as possible straight lines

·        Smooth tries to smooth curved lines

·        Ink tries to leave the line as drawn

Object Drawing (J) icon

• The Object Drawing groups the Fill and Stroke as one object and places a box around the object. Select only when you want Fill and Stroke grouped.

Open a New Document

Layer 1

• Name ‘Stage’
• Stroke Color to green
• Click Pencil (Y)
• Open Properties and change Stroke height to 6.

Straighten Mode

• Draw a line that goes up and down.

Line straighten as much as possible

• Press/hold Shift
• Draw a line across the Stage
• Draw a vertical line

Line is restricted to a horizontal or vertical path for Straighten, Smooth and Ink modes.

• Press/hold Ctrl. Pointer changes to Selection tool.
• Select everything, press Delete to clear the Stage

Smooth Mode

• Draw a wavy line

Line is smoothed as much as possible

• Press/hold Ctrl
• Clear the Stage

Ink Mode

• Draw a that goes up and down and curves

Line remains as drawn as much as possible

• Press/hold Ctrl.
• Clear the Stage

Line Tool (N)

The Line tool draws Strokes and uses the Stroke Properties

Options:

• Object Drawing (J) icon
• Snap to Objects icon

Lines

• Change Stroke Color to blue
• Click Line (N)
• In Properties change Stroke height to 8
• Draw several lines that go all different directions.
• Press/hold Ctrl.
• Clear the Stage

Angles

• Press/hold Shift
• Draw a line and without releasing button, move line in a circle
• Release button when line is horizontal
• Press/hold Shift
• Draw a line starting at either end point of the horizontal line
• Release button when line is at a 45 degree angle

Line moves around starting point in 45 degree increments.

Paint Brush Tool (B)

Brush Tools uses the Fill Properties

Options:

• Object Drawing (J)
• Lock Fill
• Brush Mode. Affects how an object and background are painted.
• Brush Size. Draws lines using different Brush sizes
• Brush Shape. Draws lines using different Brush shapes
• Use Pressure
• Use Tint

Pressure and Use Tint options are used with a pressure-sensitive tablet like Wacom.

 

Lock Fill:

• Only works with a gradient and controls whether a gradient fill will span only one shape, or will span all shapes filled by that gradient

 Brush Mode

• Press/hold Ctrl
• Clear the Stage

• Click Oval (O)
• Open Properties
• Change Stroke height to 5
• Draw 5 circles. Fill Color one; Red, Blue, Purple, Green and Orange
• Select Paint Brush (B)
• Fill Color change color to Yellow
• In Options, increase size large enough to see different effects

Paint Normal

• Draw a line across the RED circle.

The Fill, the Stroke and the background are drawn over

Paint Fills

• Draw a line across the BLUE circle

Only the Fill and the background are drawn over, not the Stroke

Paint Behind

• Draw a line across the PURPLE circle

The line is behind the circle and only visible on the background.

Paint Selection

• Draw a line across the GREEN circle

Nothing happens.

• Press/hold Ctrl for Selection tool. Click Fill to select
• Release Ctrl to return to the Paint Brush
• Draw a line across the GREEN circle

Only selected Fill area is drawn on

• Press/hold Ctrl for Selection tool. Deselect the Fill
• Click one of the GREEN Fills to select
• Release Ctrl to return to the Paint Brush
• Draw a line across the GREEN circle

Only selected area is drawn on. The previous yellow line and unselected Fill are not drawn on.

Paint Inside

• Draw a line starting inside the ORANGE circle and onto the background

Fill is drawn over. The Stroke and background are not.

• Draw a line starting on the background and going across the circle

Background is drawn on. Fill and Stroke are not.

 Brush Shapes

• Press/hold Ctrl
• Clear the Stage
• Draw with the different Paint Brush shapes to see how each one looks.
• Press/hold Shift
• Draw with the different shapes to see how each one looks.

Lock Fill

• Press/hold Ctrl
• Clear the Stage
• Change Paint Brush shape to round
• Change Fill Color to Linear Rainbow
• Click Lock Fill
• Draw 8 dashes across the Stage
• Click Lock Fill to deselete
• Draw 8 dashes across the Stage

First set of dashes change color on a gradient. Second set of dashes are the radial rainbow.

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