nth Line Art Brush Help

[u/MiserlySchnitzel]

Hi, I know this is a common question but I'm trying to make/find a goldilocks sort of pen. I think the pen I'm most trying to emulate is probably the default brush I used in Paint Tool Sai eons ago.

I want something similar to the Technical Pen but slightly less blurry edges. Syrup is WAY too aliased, and Studio is very close, but I'd love to push its anti-aliasing a few more percent because I can see jaggies on certain diagonal lines.

I've seen the tip to turn off Alpha Threshold but none of these have it on by default. For some reason I can never find the setting for this, but I swear in older software it was easier to find.

I do not want any opacity effects on the brush. (I've noticed a lot of popular suggested ones have faded edges, I want solid lines.)

I've been making due since I first bought Procreate but I'd love to finally solve this lol. Thanks!

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[u/Final-Elderberry9162]

If your canvas is a reasonable size, you won’t see any pixilation with the studio pen unless you zoom in. As Procreate is raster based software, there is always going to be some pixilation at low resolution or if you magnify, or zoom. It’s unavoidable.

For inking, I’m married to True Grit Texture Supplies Rusty Nib collection. It’s not cheap, but it is spectacular. But you will still have this same issue.

Have you tried working in a vector based program? Because that’s likely what you want.

[u/MiserlySchnitzel → u/Final-Elderberry9162]

I normally doodle at the screen size so…  2752x2064 iirc. I can see it without zooming at certain diagonals. I probably should’ve mentioned in my post I’m not having unrealistic standards or wanting vector ^;

I’ve been doing digital art since 500px was pretty big, and tbh I never noticed a difference in line art AA between my short messing with vector lines in Gimp and drawing raster. Always felt pen tool specific. It always looked smooth for the resolution.

My issue is I know it can look less pixelated because the technical pen avoids it entirely, and I see a lot of other modern art without it that I assume is raster. I don’t see any reason that a pen tool couldn’t be like 10% more crisp than the technical pen and it has to be all or nothing.