Momma Jay is Still Pondering

Gotta work on that bouquet of flowers!

I experimented today with Clip Studio Paint’s reference layers. Reference layers are useful for flatting images. For one thing, color can be applied to a layer beneath a reference layer using a bucket tool and the paint will conform to the line boundaries of the reference layer.

I also continued my search of a simple mono-width digital brush similar to a Rapidograph technical pen. Such a pen brush would have absolutely no features, with no dynamic pressure opacity or flow variables. I haven’t found such a unicorn brush yet — it seems that everyone wants to design fancy brushes, not simple brushes. I’ve checked the Clip Studio Assets site, which has many thousands of brushes, but haven’t found what I want. Perhaps if I could enter the term “mono-width pen” in Japanese I might find something. I’d better start learning some Kanji!