Ballpoint Pen
Ballpoint pen repeats a real pen, so the max size is limited because there are no giant ballpoint pens.
Features: size and opacity depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more thin and transparent, but it always has a little bit of ink on stroke start.
Recommended style: Better draw by fast short and straight strokes just as commonly used in drawing with a real pen
Palette: Ballpoint pen has 3 factory colors: blue, red, green.
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Mechanical pencil
Mechanical pencil is the digital-analog of classic Japanese mechanical pencil. This is a thin line pencil.
Features: size and opacity depending on stroke speed but lines are more uniform than ballpen’s line. Perpendicular angle makes the pencil less sensitive to canvas texture.
Recommended style: Good for hatching, cross-hatching, scribbling, and also for long straight lines.
Palette: 2 hardness presets.
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Colored pencil
Colored pencil draws granular wide lines.
Features: opacity depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more transparent. Very sensitive to the brush angle. The parallel angle gives wide strokes, the perpendicular angle
makes the line bolder.
Recommended style: It’s good for fast hatching and shading. You can hatch without lifting a pencil.
Palette: Color pencil has its own color library.
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Classic pencil
The classic pencil is a flat shading pencil.
Features: opacity depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more transparent. Very sensitive to the brush angle. The parallel angle gives wide strokes
Recommended style: Good for fast sketches and shading.
Palette: 5 hardness presets.
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Metallic gray pencil
“Metallic gray pencil” is a simple pencil with a square lead.
Features: size and opacity are a little bit depending on stroke speed. This pencil gives more stable and straight lines than other pencils.
Recommended style: Good for hatching, cross-hatching, scribbling, and also for smooth details.
Palette: 5 hardness presets.
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Thin-Line Black pencil
“Thin-line black pencil” draws granular wide lines like a real long lead pencil.
Features: size depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more thin. Very sensitive to the brush angle. The parallel angle gives wide strokes, the perpendicular angle
makes the line bolder.
Recommended style: It’s good for fast hatching and shading. You can hatch without lifting a pencil. This pencil is very similar to the “Colored pencil” but gets narrower with faster strokes. Also, “Black pencil” ignore canvas texture.
Palette: 5 Hardness presets.
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Marker pen
“Marker pen” is the digital-analog of watercolor marker pen. It has flat wide lead.
Features: opacity a little bit depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more transparent, but it always has a little bit of ink on stroke start. The perpendicular angle makes the stroke thinner and bolder. Blends colors like a watercolor brush.
Recommended style: Good for smooth blending and detailed color pictures.
Palette: “Marker pen” has own color library.
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Graphite Stick
Graphite stick is a very natural tool for drawing and shading. It gives very wide and textured stroke.
Features: The parallel angle gives wide strokes. The Graphite stick blends colors a little bit.
Recommended style: Good for expressive drawing, sketching, and shading.
Palette: 3 graphite presets:
4B – and not depending on canvas texture. Has own texture.
2B – has its own texture but depending on canvas texture.
HB – depending on canvas texture, but don’t have its own texture. So this preset looks very different on smooth paper.
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Blending stump
Blending stump irreplaceable thing for smooth blending. This tool doesn’t draw but only blending. Also, it can be used as a smooth eraser.
Features: Draws paint further with a fast movement.
Recommended style: Smoothing and blending any art-styles.
Palette: 3 presets:
6340: Smoothing with the current layer and transparent pixels, and erase a little bit
6341: Only Smoothing with the current layer and transparent pixels.
6342: Smoothing with all underlayers and canvas, also, it has some transparency reduction limit for every stroke.
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Soft pastel
“Soft pastel” is a digital analog of oil pastel.
Features: The perpendicular angle makes the stroke thinner. Blend colors.
Recommended style: Soft painting with visible texture.
Palette: “Soft pastel” has its own color library.
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Hard pastel
Unlike “Soft pastel”, “Hard pastel” is more like chalk
Features: The perpendicular angle makes the stroke thinner. No blends colors and give more texture unlike blending tools.
Recommended style: Adding texture
Palette: “Hard pastel” has its own color library.
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Highlighter
“Highlighter” is the big flat marker.
Features: opacity depending on stroke speed – fast stroke is more transparent, but it always has a little bit of ink on stroke start. The perpendicular angle makes the stroke thinner and bolder. Blends colors a little bit.
Recommended style: Good for text, graffiti tags, fill areas.
Palette: “Highlighter” has its own 5 “factory” colors.
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