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Pen and pencil mastery

Precise curves with the pen, expressive lines with the pencil, and the sculpting tools between.

01Pen fundamentals

Click to place corner points, click-drag to pull out curves. The blue ring on your first point means one more click closes and fills the shape. Backspace removes the last point while drawing; Enter finishes an open line.

02Pencil and line profiles

The Pencil (B) draws freehand and smooths as you go. In the Stroke section, Profile turns a uniform line into pen, brush, calligraphy or fade — variable width that exports as true vector outlines.

03Editing what you drew

Click a selected path's points to delete them, drag to move them, Shift-click to gather several. The Smoothness slider re-simplifies from the ORIGINAL dense points, so you can always slide back to full detail.

04The push tool

Push (U) is a sculpting brush: drag near a path and its points ease away from the cursor. Perfect for organic adjustments where dragging individual anchors feels too surgical.

05Mirror drawing

Toggle Mirror in the top bar and every stroke arrives with a twin across the page centre, grouped with the original — faces, vases, butterflies in half the strokes.

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