A fuzzy binary brush in Procreate

A drawing showing the brush in action, featuring a few wiggly lines and a cat showing you the tongue.

The kind of an aesthetic that the standard Ink Bleed brush has, but slightly less allergic to Paint Bucket.

A little context

While trying to make a digital version of a highlighter pen in Procreate, I noticed a certain detail: if you have a pill-like brush shape and set up each point to draw with a random angle, you get this sort of a peculiar, wobbly brush stroke:

Some wobbly brush strokes
Spacing 20% with Spacing Jitter 10%

And that could be useful for something, but if you pick a pointier shape (like a diamond here), you get a kind of a brush stroke that's "fuzzy" but still largely unbroken (and thus works well with selection/fill).

Making a brush

Start with an aliased brush (see previous mini-guide);

Change its shape to a diamond (square rotated 45 degrees). This is mine:

A white diamond/rotated square on a black background

Assign it on the Shape tab of the Brush Studio:

A screenshot showing Shape Source with the aforementioned diamond.

Then, drag Scatter and Pressure Roundness under Shape Properties to Max:

A screenshot showing that Scatter and Pressure Roundness sliders are set at the maximum value.

And that's all!

Or you can download mine, which is an edit of Studio Pen:

Studio-Pen-fuzzy.brush

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