Digital Painting Digital Painting Brushes and Textures 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What does 'pressure sensitivity' allow when using a stylus on a drawing tablet?
- Pressure changes the canvas zoom level
- Pressure controls brush size, opacity, or flow based on how hard the stylus is pressed (Correct answer)
- Pressure switches between brush presets automatically
- Pressure changes the active layer
Correct answer: Pressure controls brush size, opacity, or flow based on how hard the stylus is pressed
Pressure sensitivity translates the physical pressure applied to the stylus into dynamic changes in brush size, opacity, or flow for expressive mark-making.
Question 2: What is the advantage of using a 'custom brush' made from a photo or texture in digital painting?
- It permanently changes the canvas background
- It allows complex organic or textured marks to be applied quickly that would be difficult to paint manually (Correct answer)
- It automatically colorizes black-and-white images
- It replaces the need for layers
Correct answer: It allows complex organic or textured marks to be applied quickly that would be difficult to paint manually
A custom texture brush stamps a photographic or painted pattern along a stroke, enabling quick creation of complex surfaces like rough stone, bark, or foliage.
Question 3: Which blending brush in Photoshop picks up and spreads existing paint without adding new color?
- Clone Stamp tool
- Mixer Brush (Correct answer)
- Dodge tool
- Healing Brush
Correct answer: Mixer Brush
The Mixer Brush blends, smears, and mixes existing colors on the canvas, simulating how wet paint behaves when blended with a brush.
Question 4: In digital painting, what does the 'stabilizer' or 'line smoothing' feature do?
- Prevents the canvas from scrolling while painting
- Reduces jitter in brushstrokes by smoothing hand tremors for cleaner lines (Correct answer)
- Locks brush settings to prevent accidental changes
- Stabilizes the file autosave intervals
Correct answer: Reduces jitter in brushstrokes by smoothing hand tremors for cleaner lines
Stabilizer/smoothing algorithms reduce hand tremor and jitter, producing smoother, more controlled strokes — especially useful for inking and line art.
Question 5: What is a 'texture overlay' technique in digital painting?
- Painting directly on a texture file
- Placing a photographic texture image on a layer set to a blending mode to add surface detail (Correct answer)
- Removing texture from a painting
- Exporting textures for 3D models
Correct answer: Placing a photographic texture image on a layer set to a blending mode to add surface detail
A texture overlay places a high-resolution texture image on a layer using blending modes like Overlay or Multiply to add surface realism to painted areas.
Question 6: How does the 'wet mix' or 'color mixing' mode in a brush affect painting?
- It restricts the brush to only one preset color
- It causes the brush to blend its color with existing canvas colors as you paint, simulating wet paint mixing (Correct answer)
- It converts all colors to grayscale while painting
- It locks the background layer
Correct answer: It causes the brush to blend its color with existing canvas colors as you paint, simulating wet paint mixing
Wet mix mode picks up existing canvas colors and blends them with the current brush color, simulating the behavior of wet paint mixing on a surface.
Digital Painting Digital Painting Brushes and Textures 2
What does 'pressure sensitivity' allow when using a stylus on a drawing tablet?