Hey Adam, Welcome to the forum!!!
You may have noticed that I'm not much of a capitalist, hahaha, but I'd be giddy to see someone wearing a t-shirt with Verve art on it, haha, that would be great!
As for the brush direction, I've added that it should automatically align itself, if your tablet would not spit out tilt, but I only tested it with the mouse and it worked there, if not brilliantly. I will make it a brush option, though, and then make it all a bit more solid, too.
You can count on more updates and videos, for sure!
Cool, thanks for letting your dad have a go at it, that's awesome, too. The grid stuff will get really exciting, once I get to that part of the interface (floating interface sections for grid, brush, color...etc, etc, etc).
For right now your feedback and your paintings represent the currency I consider a generous payment, hehe!
...maybe at some point I'll figure out some way of allowing folks to fund my work on Verve, if they wanted to. But I will never extort people or make my love conditional to make Verve for all of us.
The light source you move as instructed in the manual. Place it based on what vibe you want to support: painting sitting in a room with simulating a real light source or using the light source as effect or element of the painting itself.
I should move our posts to a different thread, though, I think. Maybe later...
...anyway, Thanks, buddy, I'm glad you came here!