Painting pixel brush strokes

You can use Pixel Persona to add photo-realistic textures to your vector designs using pixel brushes. Alternatively, you can use basic hard- and soft-edged pixel brushes to add shadows and highlights to your work.

Pixel painting example

Before and after adding shadows and highlights using a soft-edged pixel brush.

Brushes

Affinity Designer provides an impressive selection of pixel brush designs for use with your Paint Brush. Each category contains brushes of varying properties and characteristics.

You can also create your own pixel brushes to assist with your design work. If you want to save a brush, these can be stored in the panel as a custom brush for future use.

Paint Brush To paint pixel brush strokes:
  1. Use the Layers panel to select the pixel layer that you want to work on, or create a new pixel layer.
  2. From the Tools panel, select the Paint Brush.
  3. From the Brushes panel, select a brush thumbnail of your choice. The tool uses a soft-round brush by default.
  4. Adjust the context toolbar settings.
  5. Select a stroke color from the Color panel.
  6. Drag on the page in the direction that you want the brush stroke to follow.

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