Drawing Tools

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Create freehand drawings and brush strokes on your canvas with six professional drawing tools.

Activating Drawing Mode

  • Click the Draw button in the toolbar, or
  • Press B

When drawing mode is active, the drawing tools panel appears with all available tools.

Available Tools

Pen Tool

The default drawing tool for smooth, consistent strokes.

Property Description
Color Stroke color
Width Brush size in pixels
Opacity Transparency (0-100%)
  1. Click and drag on the canvas to draw
  2. Release to finish the stroke
  3. Paths are automatically smoothed after release

Ink Brush

Calligraphic strokes with pressure simulation for expressive, variable-width lines.

Property Description
Color Ink color
Width Base brush size
Pressure Simulated pressure variation

The ink brush creates strokes that vary in thickness based on speed - draw slowly for thick lines, quickly for thin lines. Perfect for calligraphy, lettering, and artistic illustrations.

Marker

Wide, semi-transparent strokes that simulate a highlighter or felt-tip marker.

Property Description
Color Marker color
Width Marker width (wider than pen)
Opacity Semi-transparent by default

Markers have a flat tip appearance and are great for highlighting, annotation, and bold strokes.

Spray Can

Scattered dots that simulate spray paint for textured, diffused effects.

Property Description
Color Spray color
Width Spray radius
Density How many dots per spray burst

Hold and move to create spray paint effects. Works well for backgrounds, textures, and graffiti-style art.

Eraser

Remove strokes from the canvas by painting over them.

Property Description
Width Eraser size

Click and drag over strokes to erase them. The eraser removes any drawing strokes it touches.

Fill Bucket

Fill tool filling a closed shape
The fill bucket tool filling a closed path with color

Fill enclosed areas with color using a three-stage detection system:

Stage What It Detects Result
1. Stroke Click on a stroke Fills the stroke itself
2. Path Click inside a closed path Fills the enclosed area
3. Canvas Click on empty canvas Fills the canvas background

Click anywhere on the canvas - the fill tool intelligently determines what to fill based on where you click.

Tool Switcher

When drawing mode is active, the tools panel shows all six tools as icon buttons:

  1. Click a tool icon to switch to it
  2. The active tool is highlighted
  3. Each tool remembers its own color and width settings

Color and Width Controls

All drawing tools share these controls:

  • Color picker - Click to choose stroke color
  • Width slider - Drag to adjust brush size
  • Opacity slider - Set transparency (available on pen, ink, marker)

Quick size adjustment: Use [ and ] to decrease and increase brush size without opening settings.

Where Drawings Appear

Freehand drawings are added to the background layer. They appear behind text and other interactive elements.

To draw on the background:

  1. In the Scene panel, select Drawing as the background mode
  2. Use any drawing tool

Tips

For smooth curves:

  • Draw slowly and steadily
  • Use larger brush sizes for smoother results
  • The path is automatically smoothed after you release
  • Combine tools - Use the pen for outlines, then fill with the fill bucket
  • Layer effects - Use the spray can for texture, then draw details with the ink brush
  • Undo freely - Press Ctrl+Z to undo individual strokes

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut Action
B Activate Drawing Mode
[ Decrease brush size
] Increase brush size
Ctrl+Z Undo last stroke