# How do you draw in flash? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [June 6, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680 "2003-06-06T23:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cliffy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/cliffy/32/234_2.png) [@cliffy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cliffy)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/1 "2003-06-06T23:36:39Z")
I find it hard to draw in flash because it seems that the pencil tool never results in the line that I actually want, and the brush tool is hard to edit afterwards because it is not a single spline. I know that there is settings for the pencil tool, but they don’t really seem to delvier the results that I want. If anyone has any tips I would really appreciate them, or even if there is some settings for the pencil tool that you find the best please ley me know. BTW most of the stuff that I work on is character drawing in case it matters. Thanks for the help ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/2 "2003-06-06T23:41:25Z")
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/lineart.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/lineart.htm) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/3 "2003-06-07T00:20:12Z")
I hear you, about the pencil tool in Flash… I too was not impressed with its performance. I prefer the method employed in the tutorial that Jubba recomended (it was created by Kitiara, who is our resident goddess of Flash Line Art). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/4 "2003-06-07T00:37:59Z")
that method does work pretty good. Even though at first glance it doesn’t look productive it works pretty good. Thanks for the quick reply. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/5 "2003-06-07T00:57:01Z")
ok one more newbie question (I have searched for this one with no success). How do you join lines? Sometimes it happens, without me knowing why, but alot of the time I can not get it to work. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/6 "2003-06-07T03:04:42Z")
you may have snap to objects checked… its under the view menu… im not sure what you mean by ‘joining lines’… are they just lines, or are they a stroke on a shape?? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/7 "2003-06-07T03:12:32Z")
well after a lot of fooling around it seems that after snapping the ends together then clicking and dragging the point of connection in a direction kinda tangent to the point of connection seems to do the trick ~70% of the time, but I still have problems the other 30% of the time. I will give your way a go. Thanks for the help ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/8 "2003-06-07T03:16:16Z")
ya I meant lines, and I do have snap to object selected. One thing that I left out before is that I drag the two joining points to a point where the circle lies over two points gets bigger. It will then sometimes join the lines ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/9 "2003-06-07T03:31:42Z")
i dont know if you know this or not, but it might help: do you know about shift+clicking to select multiple objects? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/10 "2003-06-07T04:51:06Z")
ya I do, can that be used in some way? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-draw-in-flash/22680/11 "2003-06-09T15:24:56Z")
im really not sure. It will help you move and select objects, but as far as joining them together, i am uncertain. Ive tried many times to figure it out, but have had no luck… sorry… ☹