Guides / Wheel and brushes
The brush library
Browse the medium's brushes, every mark and every motion, choose and arrange the brushes on your wheel, save and manage your own brushes, and search them all.
- Free
- Browsing every brush and motion, the nineteen Free effect looks, choosing and arranging the brushes on your wheel, and saving, sharing, importing and searching brushes.
- Plus
- Every effect look, and the brushes that carry them.
Tap the medium in hand, then Add brushes. The library opens on the current medium's brushes, each drawn as the stroke it makes.
Unfold the wheel, tap the medium in hand, then Add brushes. The library opens on the current medium's brushes, each drawn as the stroke it makes.
Click the medium in hand, then Add brushes. The library opens on the current medium's brushes, each drawn as the stroke it makes.
The collections follow the three parts of a stroke. Brushes holds this medium's brushes; Marks and Motions go on the brush in hand. All brushes shows every brush. In Marks, All, Free and Plus filter the effect looks. Faded row edges show where more categories can be scrolled into view.
The collections follow the three parts of a stroke. Brushes holds this medium's brushes; Marks and Motions go on the brush in hand. All brushes shows every brush. In Marks, All, Free and Plus filter the effect looks. Faded row edges show where more categories can be scrolled into view.
The wheel holds your brushes. The plus on any brush puts it on its medium's ring, or takes it off. In my wheel shows each ring's brushes; drag them into the order you like.
The wheel holds your brushes. The plus on any brush puts it on its medium's ring, or takes it off. In my wheel shows each ring's brushes; drag them into the order you like.
To keep the brush in hand as it is now, tap Save current brush and give it a name.
To keep the brush in hand as it is now, tap Save current brush and give it a name.
To keep the brush in hand as it is now, click Save current brush and give it a name.
Your saved brush is in My brushes. Each brush's menu offers Duplicate, Share, and for your own brushes, Rename and Delete.
Your saved brush is in My brushes. Each brush's menu offers Duplicate, Share, and for your own brushes, Rename and Delete.
Rename changes a saved brush's name. Strokes already painted with a brush never change, whatever you do to it here.
Rename changes a saved brush's name. Strokes already painted with a brush never change, whatever you do to it here.
Search finds any brush by name or medium, whichever collection is open. Tap a brush to take it up.
Search finds any brush by name or medium, whichever collection is open. Tap a brush to take it up.
Search finds any brush by name or medium, whichever collection is open. Click a brush to take it up.
Opening the library
Tap the medium in hand on the stroke wheel, then Add brushes. At the top is the brush in hand, with its medium, marks and motion, and Settings 1, which opens it in Brush Studio. Below the media row, tap a medium to switch to it and show its brushes.
Tap a brush to take it up; the library closes. A brush of another medium moves you to that medium's layer (see The seven media).
Collections
| Collection | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Brushes 2 | The medium's own brushes and tools. |
| Marks | Every mark: Line, Shapes, Hatching, Liquid marks, then the effects by category (Fire, Smoke & Steam, Sky, Weather, Water, Nature, Creatures, Magic, Explosions), with the effect brushes you saved at the end of their category. A tap puts it on the brush in hand, in its medium and colour. See Marks and Effects. |
| Motions | Every motion, the medium's suggestions first, then Still, Float & Drift, Waves & Flow, Bend & Stretch, Bounce & Rhythm and Shake & Sketch. A tap puts it on the brush in hand. See Add motion. |
| All brushes 3 | Every brush, grouped by medium. |
| In my wheel 1 | The brushes on your wheel, a section per medium in ring order. Drag a brush by its handle to move it, swipe to take it off. My order or Recently used 2 sets how each ring is ordered; Reset to starter brushes puts back the brushes the wheel came with. |
| My brushes | Brushes you saved, duplicated or imported. |
All / Free / Plus in Marks narrows the effect looks without changing categories. Plus looks carry a Plus badge, and Free users see the Free looks first; a brush whose look is Plus shows a lock. Choosing one opens Free and Plus on effects. Motions are all Free.
Category rows scroll horizontally when they do not fit. A faded edge indicates more categories in that direction.
The wheel's ring of brushes holds the brushes you keep there, about twenty per medium to start. Ahead of it, in the first ring after its chips, are the brushes you painted with last: up to six from any medium, as many as fit, each marked with a clock. In My order each keeps its place, so your hand learns where to find it. In Recently used, the brushes you used lately come first; the order is set when the ring opens, so nothing moves while you try brushes.
Search
Find any brush searches every brush by name and by medium, whichever collection is open: "Pen" finds every Pen brush, "India" finds India Ink. Clear the search to return to the collections. On iPad and Mac the search field stays in view under the bar as you scroll. On iPhone, the list shows only the results while you search, so they stay in view above the keyboard.
Your own brushes
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Save current brush 3 (+) | Saves the brush in hand, with every setting and its colour, under a name you give. It opens in My brushes. |
| ⊕ In my wheel | Puts the brush on its medium's ring, or takes it off. A brush you save goes on the wheel too. |
| ⋯ Manage → Duplicate… | Saves a copy under a new name, to change without losing the original. |
| ⋯ Manage → Share… | Saves the brush as a file, to send or keep. |
| ⋯ Manage → Rename… | Renames one of your brushes. |
| ⋯ Manage → Delete… | Deletes one of your brushes, after asking. |
| Import brush… 4 | Adds a brush from a file. |
Rename and Delete appear only on your own brushes; built-in brushes can't be changed, only copied. Deleting a brush leaves the strokes already painted with it unchanged. A copy of a built-in brush remembers where it came from, so Reset to default in Brush Studio still takes it back to the built-in's settings.
Plus: The library is Free, Share… and Import brush… included. Nineteen effect looks are Free; the other looks, and brushes that carry them, come with Plus: on Free they open Free and Plus. Free also sees See what Plus adds at the end of the library. See Effects.
On iPhone the library opens as a sheet; swipe it down or tap Done to close it.
Hover a brush, mark or motion to inspect it without selecting it. Choose Magnification (the default), Separate preview or Off in Settings → Hover previews. On touch screens, press and hold, then choose Use to select the previewed brush. See Larger previews.
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