There are 4 drawing modes in Symple Art:  Free mode, Mirror Vertical, Mirror Horizontal and Mirror Quad.  The mode you use will depend on the results you are looking for.

Free mode does just what its name implies; it allows the artist to draw freehand or use Shapes on the canvas without any symmetrical mirroring.  Mirror Vertical performs all drawing with the Pencil, Brush or Shapes will be mirror-duplicated in the opposite vertical half of the canvas drawing area.  Everything drawn on the top half is mirrored below and everything drawn on the bottom half is mirrored above.  Mirror Horizontal performs all drawing with the Pencil, Brush or Shapes will be mirror-duplicated in the opposite horizontal half of the canvas drawing area.  Everything drawn on the left half is mirrored to the right and everything on the right half is mirrored on the left. Mirror Quad performs all drawing with the Pencil, Brush or Shapes is mirror-duplicated in both the opposite horizontal and vertical halves of the canvas drawing area.  What you can create with the tools in Simple Art is only limited by your own imagination and your skills and experience as a graphics artist.

Symple Art allows the use of dual simultaneous colors.  When creating your artwork with Symple Art, you can use the left and right mouse buttons for different color selections for the Pencil, Brush and Shapes tools.  The color buttons will show current color selection for the respective mouse buttons.  To change the color to be used, simply click the appropriate color button (left or right) to access the color palette to select your desired color.

As shown in the example below, anything drawn with the left mouse button using Pencil, Brush or Shapes will be red and using the right mouse button will be blue.

You can change the width (thickness) of drawings made with the Pencil, Brush or Shapes by clicking on the Width button and selecting the desired thickness from the drop-down choices.  You can choose the width of the drawing tool to get the desired look in your finished artwork project.  The lines were drawn in freehand to show the actual stroke widths.

There are 5 basic drawing tools available in Symple Art: 1) Pencil, 2) Brush, 3) Select, 4) Shapes and 5) Eyedropper.  Each tool may have additional option buttons in the Tool Options panel.

You can flip your selections either vertically or horizontally and rotate it in the counter-clockwise (CCW) direction by 90 degree increments (use 2 times for 180 degrees & 3 times for 270 degrees).

The Shapes tool allows you to quickly and easily create some basic shapes to your artwork project.  Six shapes are available and each of shape can vary in any of the four available widths and Windows palette colors.  Many people find it hard to draw a straight line with the Pencil or Brush and will find the Line Shape very useful.  Some different color examples of the available shapes are shown below.

The Eyedropper tool, sometimes referred to as a color picker, allows you to choose existing colors from artwork in the drawing canvas.  You can use the Eyedropper tool to use colors from loaded images that may be hard to match on the color palette.  For instance, using the fiery chicken image, we may want to extract some flame colors.  You can also use the Eyedropper tool to reuse an already used color in the drawing canvas without having to remember which color you selected from the color palette.

The Symple Draw option on the menu allows you to freehand draw without having to hold the mouse buttons down the whole time you are working on your artwork.  Use the left/right mouse buttons as follows in Symple Draw mode:

                          Left Mouse button:       Start / Pause drawing

                        Right Mouse button:       Start / Stop drawing

In many cases, this mode will allow you to draw more consistently because the mouse will glide more smoothly over the mouse pad or surface.  Lastly, drawing will automatically stop whenever the cursor leaves the drawing canvas.