Afterwards, select them both and head to Path > Difference. I wanted to chop up the reflection a bit to make it more realistic, so I just duplicated my reflection brush stroke and stretched it out over the right edge of the original. If you notice below, I slowly just drag downwards to create this crazy scattered brush, but then I realized this may be neat for some sort of water reflection. For this, I have Width: 60, Thinning: 0, Angle: 0, Fixation: 90, Caps: 0, Tremor: 100, Wiggle: 0, Mass: 2. This is a pretty neat idea that I came up with while playing with some of the Brush Stroke tool settings. Also note that you can track any previously selected path, it doesn't just have to be brush strokes. What this is going to do is lock in the distance from the previous stroke and guide you as you draw the new path. You'll notice the circle resizes depending on how close to the previous path you are.

After you draw a brush stroke, hold Control and you'll see a circle pop up. Below you'll see a brush stroke with zero Tremor or Wiggle, full Tremor, and full Wiggle. Now for some of the more crazy settings are Tremor and Wiggle. The Fixation is the intensity of which to apply the specified Angle ( -90 to 90). As you can tell, this adds a sort of dipped pen or ribbon effect. This time you'll see a brush stroke with zero Fixation, then a brush stroke with full Fixation ( 100) and an Angle of 90. The larger the Thinning value is (positive or negative) the more intense the thinning will be. Without the use of a pressure sensitive input device, the thinning is added by how fast your cursor moves while drawing. Tinker with Settings Step 1īelow you'll see a brush stroke with zero Thinning, Positive Thinning, and Negative Thinning. The rest of these options are a little tricky, so let's just go over these in a little more detail.

Right after that is Width, which is simply the width of your brush stroke. First, you'll see some presets which are pretty useful. Once you select the Brush Strokes tool, you'll notice it's menu is filled with a ton of settings and options. It's actually called the Calligraphy or Brush Strokes tool, which looks a little something like this: Step 2 Let's break down the many options available for brush strokes in Inkscape and also go over a few tricks that are sure to keep brush strokes part of your designing.Īt first glance, there doesn't seem to be a Brush Strokes tool. There's a lot that goes into brush strokes in Inkscape, but it pays off with beautiful results.

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