Performance: Pixarra's attention to performance is a top priority. As an artist draws and paints the tools should disappear from thought and allow focus on the creative process rather than waiting for the tool to finish its job. In addition the responsiveness of the brush tools should be quick and show marks on the page instantly to allow the artist to enter the "zone".

High Precision 64 Bit Brush Engine: Most graphic programs offer at most 32 bits of color resolution. TwistedBrush represents all image data internally at a full 64 bits of color resolution. This allows for super smooth color mixing and alpha blending.

Brushes: TwistedBrush has over 1500 diffferent brushes included. These range from very simple color dots to realistic representations of natural artist tools to very wild brushes. Here is a very small sampling of some of the brushes that are available. For a complete listing of brushes visit the ArtSet swatches.

Airbrush: Smoothly feathered at the edges as you'd expect an airbrush would be. This brush dab was done with no additional brush effects.

Watercolor crayons: Drawing with a textured wet watercolor crayon with color blending and some grainyness.



Oil pastel: Even more grain shows in this brush, but it still blends with the existing color that is already on the page.

Gausy brush: Actually created with the basic oil pastel brush style but altered with a multiply and jitter brush effect.

Fine oil brush: Based on one of the basic brush types that draws with individual bristles of color, dynamically changing with each stroke. This basic brush with modified with the multiply and jitter brush effects.

Color pencil: A basic color pencil brush type but with a darken color blending brush effect. Brush effects that blend colors allow for a variety of on the fly color mixing. In this case blue strokes were drawn first. The red strokes when drawn blend with the blend stroke just like color pencils where lighter colors don't overlay darker colors. However notice the yellow, with repeated stroking the lighter color can overlay the darker blue.



Wet watercolors: A brush that blends and dilutes with the color that is already on the canvas.



Thick oil paint: Each bristle mark is visible with each pushing its way throught the paint that is already layed down.



Vegas scarf: Brush effects are used here to alter the basic realistic brush type to create a brush that doesn't exist in reality. In this case the spike effect is used to give the overall feeling of the storke.

Paper Textures: A wide variety of paper and canvas textures can be selected so that brush strokes respond with the texture as they are placed on the paper or canvas.