Draw perfect lines and ellipsis with mouse trails
Here’s a little trick I came up with that’s so simple I smacked my forehead when it occurred to me..
Go to your mouse control panel and turn on mouse trails. Adjust the trail length to the maximum.
Now to back to your drawing program and without actually pressing the draw button (With a pen just hover above the canvas) and use the mouse trails to previsualize your strokes.
For example to draw an elipse just practice it and look at the trails, as soon as you have the major and minor axis’s down, gently press to draw.
Need to draw a perfect line to connect 2 points? Draw your fantom line in the air and press to draw when you have visualized it using the mouse trail.
My hit percentage went way up using this technique. It’s not cheating in my opinion because you do the same with pen and paper, it’s just that with a tablet your are disconnected from your drawing surface because you draw on the table/tablet instead of directly on the screen so you can’t do this as well. With mouse trails turned on you can.
