
The pencil line is very useful for tracing clean or final drawings.Īlso, it is recommended to use brush lines when designing cut-out puppet articulations which use patches. If you sketch a drawing using a semitransparent colour to get a paper-like feel, you should use the Brush tool as it produces a more realistic and natural feel. You can also convert a brush zone into a pencil line with the Brush Stroke to Pencil Line option. A pencil line will never morph with a brush stroke. Make sure that both drawings are pencil shapes (central vector). Both the Brush and Pencil tools apply vector lines when drawing strokes in the Drawing or Camera Views. If youve ever worked in Flash or Illustrator then this concept will be very familiar to you. If you trace a shape using a pencil line such as the Ellipse, Rectangle, Polyline, Line or Pencil tool, you have to morph it with another pencil line. Toon Boom Animate Pros drawing tools are vector based, meaning that you can manipulate line work infinitely without a loss of quality occurring. If you draw with the Pencil tool and want to modify the thickness variation, use the Pencil Editor tool. About the Pencil Line to Pencil Line Rule.

If you draw with the Brush tool and want to modify the thickness variation, use the Contour Editor tool. This means that a pencil line’s control points (used to deform its shape) are located along the length of the central spine, while the Brush line’s control points are located along the contour. The Pencil and shape tools produce central vector lines. The Brush tool produces contour vector lines. Both tools support pressure sensitivity, allowing you to create lines with variable thickness. menu, Convert-Brush Strokes to Pencil Lines and then select the pencil lines to modify their width.

The Brush and Pencil tools are used for drawing and sketching.
