AP (and AD) V2 Deactivate color picker gesture on ipad / draw straight line with pixel brush

[devendra]

Hi,

is there any way to deactivate the gesture for the color picker?

I don’t even know what exactly triggers it but I cannot make the most basic of drawings and use a touch gesture to draw a straight line (using an extra touch finger while drawing). 

It happens while I try to draw a straight line with the brush tool, tapping one finger and then pointing the apple pencil to the desired end point of my line. Sometimes I get a straight line, sometimes the brush draws erratically without restraining to a line, sometimes the color picker picks a color. To me there is no logic to when that happens, it seems random to me and it is irritating while drawing. 
 

Please help! I would like to deactivate the color picker gesture first and then I would like to know what is the 100% safe way to draw a straight line with the pixel brush on ipad with an apple pencil (no vector points advice please, yes, straight pixel drawings can be necessary).

I have already used physical books on my screen as rulers but this can‘t be the only way to do it.

Also my palm moves the document randomly while drawing although I checked  „touch only for gestures“, I bought a drawing glove out of despair.

 

Please let me know how it is intended, what is the safe way to do it and if it does not work as it is intended, when it will be fixed. Thank you!

 

 

[devendra]

I recorded a short video that shows the issues. I am tapping start and end points with the pencil while holding one finger tapped. Sometimes the lines are drawn, sometimes they‘re not. As you can see it even loses my finger tap at some point and at some point it picks the white color.

It probably has to do with APs reaction to pencil pressure as well, for the video I used an ipad stand that seems a bit bouncy, I use more pressure when the ipad is directly on my desk with the same result. And it does not explain why it works sometimes.

I found out that on the ipad‘s (physical) keyboard (that I don’t like to use constantly while drawing because of the inflexible drawing angle) you can use shift to draw a line but no way for me to do that with hand and pencil so far.

[devendra]

Ok, I just saw this post (different wording.. that happens)

and know the color picker gesture now, but it still does not explain why my original tap gesture is interrupted (and thus a new gesture is interpreted obviously) 

[Lee D]

@devendra Have you tried using the on screen Command Controller in your workflow instead? It can be toggled via the Document drop down menu and may be a better way of enabling the modifier.

[devendra]

Thank you, Lee D, II tried that, too and it helps in some situations. I find it less handy while drawing as it requires more taps. I use it if I only work geometrically but when my drawing requires a lot of switching between free drawing and straight lines I find it unwieldly. It would be nice if the functions that are already there worked in a predictable way and I prefer a simple touch/gesture while drawing.