Accessibility issue with pencils

[Anonymous]

Hi.  I have severe mobility problems and need to use my mouse to sketch. Obviously, I can't mimic pressure, so I've been trying to compensate by changing sizes and opacity but cannot simulate anything looking like pencil shading.  Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

I'm really sorry to hear from your situation.

Here's what I'd suggest you to do:

Create a custom brush that resembles pencil.
Set Sketchbook Brush Pluck to "Change Size and Opacity/Flow"
Use your Pencil Brush, and set your opacity to a level lower than 30%
Paint your initial strokes, then, paint some more to get opacity at 60%
Copy the in-mid tone between your strokes, and blend in your tones in that way.
Eventually, with enough strokes you'll get to a 100% opacity, but working with lower opacities will help you blend in tones and shades.

Let me give you a brush pack I made with Pencils in mind.
I'll upload them on my Google drive and I'll share the link in another comment.

[Anonymous]

Click here to download my personal Pencil Brush set: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WDzGsF0PLB4UGeTkddUipc29UYezH08h

BE AWARE THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO UNZIP THE FILE.
JUST RENAME THE END TO .skbrushes AND IMPORT TO SKETCHBOOK

[Anonymous]

Is this available for Android version?

[Anonymous]

Does this work with Android?

[Anonymous]

I'm affraid that the Mobile Versions of Sketchbook doesn't support Custom Brushes.
So no, my brushes won't work with Android.

But the whole Opacity thing will work.

EDIT: Custom Brushes Link files have been deleted 🙂