Quote Originally Posted by Albacore View Post
It is the use of the vector brush that gives the smooth lines while in XPro we have the limitation of a bitmap brush. A vector brush is what a few of us have been asking for a while as it restricts many types of users, like people who draw cartoons, portrait artist and as you have shown here graphic design.

Having moan at bit here, on the plus side you would not have to jump from Illy into PS as you could easily dirty up the design all in XPro.
Hmmm... You mean the custom brushes in Xara are all bitmap, not vector? I thought you could either have vector or bitmap brushes.

As for cartooning, I like to use the preset brush profiles to get that nice tapered look. However, I agree that the custom brushes need work, partly because of the breaks at the curves and corners of strokes that show up in the example above. It would be nice to make custom brushes that stretch along a path like those in Illustrator or CorelDraw, along with the current "scatter-type" brushes that Xara has now.