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Been watching hours of official tutorial videos over the past few months and something still confounds me - when I'm using a brush, pressing E correctly enables the eraser, but I haven't found a good way to return to the brush? B doesn't seem to work.

Usually I was pressing SHIFT+E to go back to the brush but it seems to have stopped working, it just stays on eraser even though I have the brush selected.

Is there a really obvious way I'm missing to get back to the brush? Or maybe a way to hold a keyboard button or something on my Wacom to temporarily enable the eraser? I'd like to avoid flipping my Wacom pen over to the eraser side to erase.

It's confounding me. Would love some help here please?

Hello Mikdog, default key for hand drawing is D.
In TVPaint, holding right click temporarily puts your current brush in "Erase" mode by default.

mikdog wrote: ↑27 May 2024, 13:18 Been watching hours of official tutorial videos over the past few months and something still confounds me - when I'm using a brush, pressing E correctly enables the eraser, but I haven't found a good way to return to the brush? B doesn't seem to work.

Usually I was pressing SHIFT+E to go back to the brush but it seems to have stopped working, it just stays on eraser even though I have the brush selected.

Is there a really obvious way I'm missing to get back to the brush? Or maybe a way to hold a keyboard button or something on my Wacom to temporarily enable the eraser? I'd like to avoid flipping my Wacom pen over to the eraser side to erase.

It's confounding me. Would love some help here please?

Not sure what kind of stylus you use , but on my Wacom Cintiq (two button) Pen I have the upper button set to Cmd Z (Undo) and the lower button set to Right-Click. So I can draw with a pen or pencil brush , press and hold the lower button to invoke Right-Click mode which turns the pen tip into an eraser, then release the button to return to drawing mode.

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I'm used to press F2 and F4 alternatively. Always have the left hand on the keyboard.

Thank you all for the replies. Very helpful.

Erasing by using the front rocker switch is the best way.
Although it is a bit frustrating because the ideal setting is not possible.
There are two settings with different consequences and unfortunately they cannot be combined


1)-RMB Erase using the Rclick setting on the toggle switch of the pen
this gives instant erase (provided the drawing tool is set to drying)... but the erase size is always the same as the drawing brush.
which is not ideal because in most cases for faster result you'd want to have it slightly larger.

2)-RMB Erase by setting the pen switch to Erase.
this gives you instant acces to a eraser of you preferred size... which is great...but you loose the RMB acces on the pen.
i would ideally want to have both the RMB on the pen AND have a wider eraser.
but i havent found a solution.

another erase strategy i often apply, in cleaning up larger areas is using the freehand fill tool option in combination with RMB

Thank you for the replies