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the back ground shouldnt matter because im useing the eport without background option. and white brush makes the color of the swatch i wish to use show up as if it is mixed with white. if i want green , i get a faded white-mixed green color as apposed to the pure green of the swatch i wish to select. and while im here.... my new issue is i dont know how to collapse a layer in the layers panel. i dont need to see where each any every stroke i make is in the layers panel. and its a pain to navigate through layers in a vector painting when each layer is displaying each and every mark ive made in that layer--- figured it out. i guess not every object has to be on a layer? and you dont actually start your document out with any layers. so if you just start painting over say, a photo youve imported with out creating an original layer your just making a bunch of strokes that you cant collapse in the layers panel. and all those strokes appear to be in the layer above , i almost broke my head trying to figure out why only half my layer would collapse

it is definitely a bummer you cant disable it . but can you adjust its intensity?

i found the blob brush great for simple character illustration.draw your outline and in the layer underneath, use the blob brush to fill in the main color of the character . its a great way to create a base color to do the rest of your painting over. im a newbie but the only otherway i see would be to go over you characters outline with the pen tool and fill in the shape. which seems more tedious to me

i must be missing somthign here . im having the same problem as kitkat was except when i try textured image brush and textured intensity brush i am either unable to change the color or the color of th swatch im trying to use dosnt match the markings the brush makes. im just creating simple shapes ,filling them with a color and saveing them as a png. then creating a new brush from that png. if i make the shape fully black i cant change the color at all. if i make the shape another color it seems that any color i try to use with that brush becomes a combinations of the swatch that im attempting to use and the original color of the png/brush.how do you make a custom brush shape with out having the "baggage" of its original color affect every color swatch you wish to use with it.