

With Black Friday 2021 fast approaching, we can expect to see more and more deals and discount on high-end electronics, a category that absolutely includes the tablets we've included in this guide (see our dedicated Black Friday drawing tablet deals page for details). In the Camera or Drawing view, start drawing to test your pencil settings.It's also an excellent time to be thinking about buying an animation tablet.Either close or set aside the Pencil Properties dialog.If you want your pencil line to have a texture, select the desired pencil line texture from the pencil line texture library.Click on the Shape pop-up buttons to select whether you want the Start and End of your pencil lines to be Round or Flat, and whether you want the points and corners where pencil lines Join to be Round, Mitre-shaped or Beveled.

A higher setting will round sharp corners and reduce the amount of control points for the resulting vector shape. Use the Contour Smoothing slider to set the amount of smoothing Harmony should perform on your stroke's contour.A higher setting will prevent your line from being shaky, but is liable to reduce your drawing precision and to round sharp corners into curves. Use the Centerline Smoothing slider to set the amount of smoothing Harmony should perform on your stroke's direction, curves and corners.If you don't want the pressure on your pen to affect the pencil size, set this parameter to 100%. The minimum size is set to a percentage of your pencil's maximum size, which is 20% by default. If you are using a pressure-sensitive pen tablet, use the Minimum Size slider to set the size of your pencil when using your pen with very little pressure.Use the Maximum Size slider to set the maximum size of your pencil line.In the Tool Properties view, click on the arrow button next to the stroke preview area to open the Pencil Properties dialog.In the Tools toolbar, select the Pencil tool or press Alt + /.
