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Brushes, erasers, shapes, and color in Sketch Board

Use Sketching mode for handwriting, drawing, erasing, shapes, color picking, and switching between writing and painting behavior.

Quick answer

Open Sketching mode when you need handwriting or drawing. It supports mouse, touchpad, and touch screen input.

Switch to Sketching mode

Brush tools

Sketch Board includes ordinary brush, pencil, highlighter, fountain pen, spray brush, fill, watercolor brush, writing brush, and image brush.

Ordinary brush

Pencil

Highlighter

Fountain pen

Image brush

Erasers

Use stroke eraser for complete strokes, point eraser for dots, and soft eraser for transparent fading.

Point eraser

Soft eraser

Eraser options

Shapes and color

Add common or custom shapes, then use the floating color picker to choose color or show pen size settings.

Common shapes

Floating color tool

Writing mode and painting mode

Writing mode gives a more native writing experience with faster response. Painting mode supports more brushes and attributes.

Writing and painting mode