

From clipboard You can make custom brushes by first drawing your brush shape, and then copying it. Switch to the Node tool and drag on the round white handle to adjust the width interactively. Ellipse The beginning and end of the path will be thinner than its middle part. Switch to the Node tool and drag on the pink diamond-shaped handle to adjust the width interactively. The Shape dropdown menu offers different brushes that influence the shape of the path: Triangle in and out This makes the path look a little more elegant, thinning or thickening along its length. Let's have a look at the options of the Pencil tool. And if you stop drawing the same path in one of those squares, it will close the path (meaning there are no openings). When you start drawing on one of these handles, this will continue the path, instead of creating a new object. Two tiny, square handles appear at the start and end of the drawn path. When you let go of the mouse button, the shape you created will get its stroke (and/or its fill, if you have one set).


The Pencil will leave a green trace that follows the location of the mouse cursor. To draw with this tool, press the left mouse button and drag the mouse around the canvas. The behavior of the Pencil tool depends on the settings in its controls bar.
