TSG: Strokes are distorted or stretched

Overview

You may notice that you are drawing on your tablet and your shapes become distorted on your monitor. For example, squares become rectangles and circles become ovals.

This distortion or stretching happens because the active area of the tablet (the part that senses the pen does that have the same aspect ratio as your display. Don't worry this can be easily fixed.

How to fix

To solve this, use Force Proportions in the tablet driver: Matching aspect ratios with Force Proportions

What about distortion on Android?

Note for Android tablet users: Whether this distortion happens depends on the specific combination of drawing tablet, android device, android version. And there is no tablet driver to help fix the problem if it does occur.

Some combinations "just work" - Huion Frego with Android tablets is a great example.

But other combinations ahce distorted strokes.

If this happens for you, the I suggest that you contact customer support and see if there are any options available for your tablet to handle this case.

For pen tablets, always turn on Force Proportions

For a pen tablet, I generally recommend turning on Force Proportions even if you do not notice the distortion because I've seen a lot of tablets that don't match your display aspect ratio just by a little bit - so the distortion is still happening and you may not notice it visually but it may still feel a bit weird to draw with.