Select your brushes

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The 12 DAUB brushes that come installed by default are fantastic, but I prefer a much more basic brush for inking. You can create your own brush category by tapping Brush Studio, and then the hamburger icon. Press Add Category and then name your brush. Now press the hamburger again and then New Round Brush.

Here are the settings I used. It’s all pretty basic stuff. All I need really is a solid brush that tapers towards the ends. You can finetune your brush settings in the app to an amazing degree, including Tilt Sensitivity, Hardness by Angle and so on. I should mention at this stage that I’m using an Apple stylus. Do you really need an Apple Stylus to use Affinity Photo on the iPad? For photo editing I don’t think it’s essential, but for illustration I would say yes. To create lines with variable width it’s all about pen pressure.