Brushes

Vector Brushes

While pixel brushes can create strokes with lots of intricate details and textures, the final drawing always exists at a fixed resolution. Scaling up brush strokes of pixel brushes makes them look blurry or pixelated.

Vector brushes, on the other hand, create vector shapes as their brush strokes, which remain sharp when viewed at any scale. These vector brush strokes are stored in vector layers.

ToonSquid comes with a default vector brush collection containing some dynamic and high-quality vector brushes. Vector brushes are highlighted in the brush library by a squiggle next to the brush.

Creating Vector Brushes#

Every brush can be turned into a vector brush by simply enabling Vector Mode in the brush settings.

When doing this, remember that vector brushes with simple shapes work best. Furthermore, vector brush strokes all have well-defined borders and the same opacity everywhere, so they don't support brush textures with soft edges very well.

Eraser#

The eraser tool automatically puts the selected brush into the correct mode (pixel or vector mode) based on the selected layer, so you can just pick a brush and start erasing immediately.

Smudge#

The smudge tool does not support vector brushes, so vector brushes behave exactly like pixel brushes in the smudge tool.