Stopping pencil tool from snapping

[Ninjag-O-G]

Hello! I'm creating a big plane of custom shapes and after sketching in raster I want to use the pencil tool to create custom vector shapes. A problem I keep running into is while tracing an already drawn shape the tool will snap once the shape is completed, resulting in something entirely different. I've tried turning off snapping and stabilizer, but I don't know how to change this. Any help?

 

[Pšenda]

8 hours ago, WatcherMagic said:

the pencil tool to create custom vector shapes.

Isn't it a better Pen Tool?

[Ninjag-O-G]

12 hours ago, Pšenda said:

Isn't it a better Pen Tool?

I like the pencil tool better in most cases; they both create custom shapes, but the pencil tool is faster and more fluid I've found. I only use the pen tool if I want some really specific straight lines. Only problem with the pencil tool is it keeps auto correcting mistakes that don't exist.

[Old Bruce]

35 minutes ago, WatcherMagic said:

I like the pencil tool better in most cases; they both create custom shapes, but the pencil tool is faster and more fluid I've found. I only use the pen tool if I want some really specific straight lines. Only problem with the pencil tool is it keeps auto correcting mistakes that don't exist.

I find that if I trace slowly with the Pencil tool I will get a better outline but with many more points. Also turn off the Stabilizer. The shape you showed would probably be better drawn with the pen tool in my opinion. I used the node tool's ability to fix curves. Somewhere there is a brief tutorial about this sort of thing, I will try to find it an post back here.

[Pšenda]

9 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

brief tutorial about this

For example this:

https://www.frankentoon.com/post/sketching-for-beginners-free-ebook

https://www.frankentoon.com/post/comic-book-affinity-designer

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Pšenda said:

For example this:
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https://www.frankentoon.com/post/comic-book-affinity-designer

Amazing! The settings suggested in the "Drawing with the Pencil Tool" part of that post are something I never would have thought of trying. Using the tool with those settings is a little weird at first but with practice I can see that even for someone like me with practically zero freehand drawing skills it opens up a lot of new possibilities for creating unique line styles.

Combined with the new Sculpt mode, it is even better.

Yay! 😁