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No, they use skeuomorphic simulations of those things.

No, they don't. You don't paint moving some virtual drawn brush gizmo, taking to some "virtual water box" to wash it out, etc.

You paint moving a cursor (whether it has a brush icon is irrelevant and not skeuomorphic in the UI sense), and you control properties of the underlying line (color, spread, width etc) with some of them going far beyond what a real world brush can do.

We have the capability to put anything on the screen that we can imagine, but we're not doing that.

That's because it's not convenient. Except if you have some cool new idea we haven't tried.

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