Inkscape does not have a way to autosnap stroke’s start/end, creating a lot of mindless clean up work for the artist. Sometimes the stroke gluing is unwanted, forcing the artist to zoom in more to reduce the threshold. However pencil does not give the artist control over the glue threshold. This is extremely handy when you have to bucket fill stuff afterwards. Pencil2d can automatically glue strokes you make to ones that are close to them. This is where inkscape fails miserably again. The bucket tool makes perfect fills with no annoying things to clean up at sharp corner areas- this is where inkscape fails miserably.The bucket tool there suffers from the same problems a bitmap based bucket tool would.Īlso the fills are glued to the outlines, which means that changing the shape of a line affects the fill as well. This is where inkscape fails- it cannot slice up fills like that. It sounds like a small thing, but it greatly simplifies the process of cell shading coloring. It allows you to use the pencil tool too slice up cell tone areas and fill in gaps. Pencil has some of the best cartoonist centric illustration tools. Right I vote to keep in the vector tools.

double clicking on an empty space of the stroke creates a new vertex.

add ability to select more than one vertex.

The proposal for a much improved smudge tool: Add a variable to tell the pen tool to what degree to autosmooth a stroke (move it out of preferences and into the tool options - visible!) Add a “reduce” command, that autosmooths a stroke by increment when you ask for it (like the one in inkscape- crl+L) It is also available in inkscape(under caligraphy brush -MASS value) Add slow position tracking - it makes smooth inking much easier and much more predictable than autosmooth. Instead of autosmoothing strokes so much: The proposal for a much improved pen tool: But it’s not very good at estimating the strokes. The auto-smooth operation is a good way to keep the vertex count. When you try to ink a pencil sketch, the pen tool automatically smooths your strokes and they are rarely what you want.

However the way the pen tool currently works really let’s it down.

Potentially it can be a great tool to make animated game sprites. I’ve been trying to use pencil in a more serious way than just pencil tests.

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