Refine your storyboards with a freehand pen tool that captures the feel of hand-drawn lines. It’s perfect for sketching freely and adding a personal touch.
Refine your storyboards with a freehand pen tool that captures the feel of hand-drawn lines. It’s perfect for sketching freely and adding a personal touch.
Pen Tool
Draw freely on the canvas.
Toggle drawing mode on by clicking the Pen icon in the toolbar.
The Selector tool has been introduced in the toolbar (cursor icon) to support non-drawing mode.
Pick Your Line Style & Colour
Choose from Pressure Pen (Natural Line), Solid, Dashed, or Dotted strokes.
Pressure Pen: Lines adjust based on your drawing speed, giving a hand-drawn, expressive look.
Select from a pre-defined colour palette or use the colour picker / hex code.
Use the input box to set the line width.
Change opacity with a slider.
Shortcuts updates
P for enabling Pen (drawing mode)
Use [ and ] or the arrow up/down keys to adjust stroke weight during drawing mode.
V is the shortcut for the Selector tool.
T was previously used for Thought Bubble, but is now the shortcut for Text.
We hope the Pen Tool helps bring your stories to life in even more expressive ways — and we can’t wait to see what you create with it.
In this post, we’ll walk you through what’s changing, who it affects (and who it doesn’t), and why this shift is necessary to keep StoryTribe sustainable and growing for the creators who rely on it.