#trail effect

Text: But what if you made a hollow brush? And then you encase the brush in a ring of slightly off white? Would that be fun?

How to activate your self made novelty brush in Paint:

1 Make sure the Background is white and there is a ticky at 'transparent selection'

2 Select your piece of 'brush'

3 Press and Hold Uppercase key

4 Press and hold left mouse button. Release Uppercase Key

5 Paint! Change speed and direction to see what it does.

Note: This is an unofficial feature in many versions of MSPaint; it is called Trail Mode. It builds on the much less interesting Stamp Mode (which uses the ctrl key instead of shift).

Btw if you wonder where I stole the nice colors for this brush? I plucked them from this bird's wing:

In text: I don't use the regular Paint Brushes. I make my own Novelty Brushes in the file, in all kinds of colors and shapes. Let me show you one example: [animated gif uses a blob of black with colorful bits as an improvised brush and demonstrates how the brushstroke characteristics change according to cursor direction and acceleration]

But how to use it as a brush?

1 Make sure the Background is white and there is a ticky at 'transparent selection'

2 Select your piece of 'brush'

3 Press and Hold Uppercase key

4 Press and hold left mouse button. Release Uppercase Key

5 Paint! Change speed and direction to see what it does.

Note: This is an unofficial feature in many versions of MSPaint; it is called Trail Mode. It builds on the much less interesting Stamp Mode (which uses the ctrl key instead of shift).

This is not a tutorial just showing off some brushes, but this shows how that works basically: