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Digital painting brushes for Windows
Sketch, ink, shade and paint in one layered Windows workspace. Choose a brush for the mark you want to make, then keep every experiment editable.
WORKFLOW
How it fits your workflow
Find a brush by the result you want
Move from crisp linework to textured color without changing apps
Keep brush strokes on separate layers
Practical details before you begin
Start with a clean sketch or an existing photograph. Use a precise brush for contours, then move to softer or more textured strokes for shadows and surface. Separate linework and color on layers so you can revise either one.
The brush families cover crisp pixels, vector marks, watercolor, ink and oil-style texture. The right choice depends on the edge and material you want to show, not on a single “best brush”.
STEP BY STEP
How to use it in the software
Dozens of brushes: how to find one fast
Brushes are grouped by temperament
Open the brush panel and you will see them sorted by purpose: common, inking, impasto,
ink-wash, oil painting, special, nature. Decide what you are doing first, then go to that group.
Three universal knobs
Tip size: almost every brush has it. Small for detail, large for laying in colour
Opacity: low lets colours build up; high covers strongly
Flow: how much "paint" comes out per stroke. Low flow is for gradual build-up
Hold to refine a shape
With a regular paint brush, pen, pixel brush or vector brush, draw a line, circle, rectangle, triangle, trapezoid or arc and hold the tip still without lifting it. After 350 ms, a recognized stroke becomes a clean shape. Hold Shift for a circle or square. Moving again restores the original stroke; lifting the tip ends recognition.
In Software Settings → Hold to Shape, you can turn this on or off, set a 200–800 ms delay and recognition sensitivity, and choose among six shape types.
Not sure which one? Start in the common group. Those are safe all-rounders that never look weird
Inking group: sketching and line work
The pencil family
From fine sketch pencil up to 6B — the higher the number, the darker and softer. Sketch with 2B to 4B; HB is light, good for under-drawing.
Hard pens
Iridium fountain pen: even lines, good for tidy outlines
Comic G pen: thickness follows speed. This is the standard comic nib
Ballpoint, soft dip pen: a handwriting feel, good for quick sketches
Charcoal
Hard charcoal for blocking shapes, soft charcoal for big tones. Lift highlights afterwards with the soft eraser.
Do not sketch with too black a pencil or it will not erase cleanly. Start at 2B
Impasto group: crayons and watercolour
Four crayons, four tempers
Oil crayon: thick wax, strong coverage. Good for the chunky colour blocks of children's illustration
Dry crayon: paper texture shows through, sandy result. Good for surface grain
Blending crayon: actively mixes with what is underneath. The natural choice for gradients and transitions
Staining crayon: a thin tint only. It tints without wiping out the shading below
The watercolour family
Light / pale / medium / dense are four steps from thin to thick. Medium is the everyday one.
Wet-in-wet bleeds colour outward — effortless for mist and background texture.
Floating colour reproduces the look of pigment settling with a darker rim at the edge.
The blending brush pushes around paint that is already down, like a brush loaded with clean water.
Press hard and crayon fills the paper grain; press lightly and it only catches the surface. Same brush, two looks
STEP BY STEP
Feature 3 · The brushes
Need exact settings and steps? Read the matching chapter of the in-app manual online.