Pixel Persona Paint Brush- Can you allow the pixel brush to leak outside the curve?

[joelitodesignco]

As you can see in my screenshot everything's in the selected curve. I don't mind that but I wanted to see if there was an alternative where some of the paint could leak out of the curve so it isn't so straight and locked in the curve. 

[GarryP]

The effect of the Paint Brush Tool will always be constrained to the ‘extents’ (outline of a curve/shape, or boundary and pixels in a raster image) of the layer you are applying it to.

In this case, if you want the effect of the Paint Brush to affect a larger area then you can make the curve larger and then add a mask, painting around the edge of the mask to create the ‘leak’. (There will be other methods which other people might suggest.)

See attached, crudely-made, example image.

[Greggry P]

You could just draw the "outer" hair on a separate pixel layer immediately behind your main curved object?

[StuartRc]

hi

Separate Mask above + Gaussian Blur on FX
You could move the curve onto a separate layer above (px painting below).
Apply FX (Gaussian blur xx value)
Then Mask to below
Painting on the px layer will create a false edge blend
 

[Greggry P]

4 hours ago, Greggry P said:

You could just draw the "outer" hair on a separate pixel layer immediately behind your main curved object?

I regularly employ this (admittedly basic) technique (see fur lined glove on screenshot below, and mink stole). Not an elegant solution by any means, but can look great and once grouped together behave the same as any vector object.