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Flowgun
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November 30, 2025
Question

Draw Inside + Blob Brush bug

  • November 30, 2025
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Hello,
I believe that the Blob brush "merging feature" with the same fill color is a bit too aggressive, so much that I'm considering it a bug. 
In the attached example, I have the neck selected and I intentionally set it to "Draw Inside" because I only intend to paint inside of it. the problem is that "Draw behind" gets circumvented when I paint with the same color (the darker color here) that an area outside the "Draw behind" area has (the face shadow). 

In such a scenario, the expected behavior is that we remain within the masked area, and the blob brush would only join with paths with similar fill that are within that mask.

Should I post this bug in https://illustrator.uservoice.com/ or would it be seen here?

5 replies

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 1, 2025

I would certainly mention your problem at the Uservoice site, it is where the Illustrator team track bugs and requests.

Flowgun
FlowgunAuthor
Inspiring
December 1, 2025

at least not Affinity :s

Flowgun
FlowgunAuthor
Inspiring
December 1, 2025

Oh I'm sorry 😅
been posting on Illustrator forum lately, and I just opened what chrome suggested first without double-checking.
My bad!

Ged_Traynor
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 1, 2025

@AxelMatt it's Illustrator!

Community Expert
December 1, 2025

Which application do you use? After you post the info I'll move your post into the appropriate forum

If I see in your screenshot it isn't Photoshop., but you post it in the Photoshop forum.

 

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