Sketch on the canvas

1. Press P, or click the pen in the left toolbar (Pen mode). The cursor becomes a pencil and you draw straight onto the shot.
2. Draw. The ink is smoothed as you go, and every stroke lands as its own object.
3. Open Sketch settings in the toolbar. It appears while the pen is active.
4. Choose a line style: Inertia (the default, which thins and thickens with your hand), Normal, Dashed or Dotted. You can also set the stroke width from 1 to 100, the color and the opacity.
5. To put the pen away, press Esc or V, press P again, or pick another tool.

Every stroke is an object

Select a stroke like any object: move it, resize and rotate it, reorder it in the Layers panel (it appears there as Freehand), or delete it. Selecting a stroke reopens the same settings, so a line can change style, width, color or opacity after it is drawn. Undo removes one stroke at a time and works without leaving the pen.

There is no eraser inside pen mode: remove ink by undoing, or by selecting strokes and deleting them.

On phone and tablet

Drawing works with touch everywhere. On a phone, the Pen tab in the bottom bar starts sketching, with Style, Color and Opacity beside it; Done puts the pen away. Keyboard shortcuts stay on desktop and tablet keyboards.