17px Pen (CSP)

This is a very simple inking brush, but today I was drawing with it and it was so nice I wanted to share it, so here it is.

Basically it's an oval nib that follows the stroke direction, with a work-around for a CSP antialiasing bug with oval brushes at small sizes. The s-curve that maps this is calibrated for a 17px pen. You can use it at larger sizes, but below 17px you might get some artifacting.

I also use a global pen pressure setting in CSP to ease wrist strain (my tablet settings are linear). Below is my CSP pressure curve, it compresses more of the pressure range into the lighter pressure area, with a little flattening out at the extreme light end. This is what works for me!