When to use stroke or fill on brushes?

[awakenedbyowls]

I'm genuinely perplexed about this, in either vector or pixel mode.

I'm playing around with the paint brush in pixel mode and the ones I'm using it doesn't seem to matter whether I pick stroke or fill, the same effect is produced. And also, sometimes if I leave the other mode blank it automatically defaults it back to white when I start using the brush. Is that doing something to affect what I'm creating? I don't know.

Also with the Vector Brush tool, I've yet to fathom out what I'm supposed to be setting colour to- stroke or fill? Or a combination of either?

I also keep losing the colour I've selected, like when I draw a line and it's wrong and I ctrl+z the stroke/fill combination seems to default back and I have to keep setting it.

[firstdefence]

Brushes are essentially a stroke medium, you have to set the colour and or style of the brush "stroke"

When drawing in vector, if you have the fill colour set to a colour you will see the space in-between nodes of a non linear curve (bent) whatever colour the fill is, this happens when using the pen tool.

 

[awakenedbyowls]

16 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Brushes are essentially a stroke medium, you have to set the colour and or style of the brush "stroke"

When drawing in vector, if you have the fill colour set to a colour you will see the space in-between nodes of a non linear curve (bent) whatever colour the fill is, this happens when using the pen tool.

 

This makes complete sense to me and I know that about the vector. It just feels like the stroke and fill settings have a mind of their own sometimes, very frustrating. 

So anything that I do that's part of a brush, eg. vector brush and paintbrush in pixel mode - it's the stroke I need to select colour for? Apart from if I want a fill in vector brush mode of course. 

In pixel mode though, it seems that I can select either the stroke or the fill though, and it works the same. Does that mean I can set either and it doesn't matter?

Why does it always default the unselected stroke or fill to white when I do this though?

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, awakenedbyowls said:

In pixel mode though, it seems that I can select either the stroke or the fill though...

The two color wells are for stroke & fill colors only for vector objects. For pixel tools (Paint Brushes, Flood Fill, etc.) they are for primary & secondary or foreground/background colors.

So for example, if one well is red & the other is green, with the Paint Brush Tool selected, you can click on either one to set the brush color.