Still no drawing tablet to this day, Need to start improvising

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Still no drawing tablet to this day, Need to start improvising

Posted by DerangedKnite - January 24th, 2023

I have been struggling to find a drawing tablet, Ever since the beginning of november to the end of january, I am supposed to broaden my art skills, but no here I am still drawing on paper to this day, Creatively limited once again, And its about time I improvise and I need your help, Recently I resubbed to astropad again, If you don't know astropad its a app that turns your ipad into a drawing tablet, And it does a meh job at it tbh, No pen pressure, But. Its kind of useful, And I have clipstudio to draw with too, So Lets go with what I am planning to do, I can't stand drawing on paper and we all know that, I have been practicing to draw cleaner lines, Confidently too, And I am planning to start inking my drawings

I might start basically taking pictures of said drawings then draw over them in clip studio with my crappy 2015 ipad air, Can it do the magic? Who knows. I tried once and it was a hell experience to color the thing too so I need help on that.

So yeah. What do I exactly do, I don't know but will have to see. Expect my drawings to go digital soon, May still be colorless tho

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kg2007 2023-01-24 15:17:40

yeah... i feel ya but paper isnt that bad because i can show that my art style isnt shit but my camera quality is makin it look like shit so that why i could agree with ya with some levels

DerangedKnite 2023-01-24 15:17:40

You got my point, And lets not mention no colors too, Hell I can't even draw straight lines, And if I use ta ruler there would be bumps left and right.

jthrash 2023-01-24 19:08:37

I certainly struggled with this inability to find workarounds with having no tablet in my college years, myself. Astropad didn’t even exist, yet.

We might have had this discussion before, but have you tried apps native to the iPad (or your phone, if you have one) like Ibis Paint, where you can turn up the Line Stabilizer option so high you can probably get away with using just your finger for drawing? Alternatively, maybe look at tutorials to better take pictures of your drawing on paper. Just throwing ideas out there…

DerangedKnite 2023-01-24 19:08:37

I mean for starters I have clip studio which is why I used astropad, Do i plan to use ibis paint? Maybe? Will it help me out tho? Depends can it emulate pen pressure, Stabilization, And allow vector line editing? If so, Then Il consider it, But I am going to go free with it, And I'm not sure if ibis paint is that free since I just subbed ot astropad so is it that good?

jthrash 2023-01-24 20:10:38

@DerangedKnite Ibis Paint is free with ads, though I work around it by temporarily setting my phone on “AirPlane Mode,” since basically all “free” apps can only bombard you with ads if you have a strong Internet or cellular connection. I’ve seen people make some incredibly clean lines using Ibis Paint’s stabilizer, but to be honest, I’d have to try it out myself before I offer my own opinion.

I can tell you that Autodesk Sketchbook is a good free-ish app (you have to sign up for an account, but otherwise it’s ad-free without having to mess around with Airplane Mode). If you want a desktop app that makes your Astropad subscription worth it, Krita may be what you’re looking for, with its Photoshop-like vector tools and MULTIPLE line stabilizer tools to mess around with. You could take pictures of your paper art, transfer it to your computer and use a full Adobe Illustrator-like vector program such as Inkscape to trace over your lines with the Pen Tool, which does not require pressure sensitivity at all (though full vector tools might actually work better with a mouse).

You have quite a few options until you can finally get a tablet, though personally I felt that drawing on paper and then tracing over your pencil sketches in a vector art program like Illustrator or Inkscape is the most ideal alternative, especially since they have a super-quick Fill Bucket tool for fast coloring/shading plus Filters to make it look less “digital” somewhat.

TheMiamiDeSantos 2023-01-29 18:21:07

you can also try to get practice on drawing with a mouse, it will take some time to master it. I live on an underdeveloped country when i started i had no money to buy the drawing tablet so i got used on drawing with a mouse, even to today i draw with a mouse

DerangedKnite 2023-01-29 18:21:07

Trust me I tried drawing with a mouse several times, And its just not working with me, Especially when there are times I need to paint things instead of using the fill bucket all the time, One of my lessons in mastering digital art is to pretty much ditch the fill tool.

TheMiamiDeSantos 2023-01-29 18:32:50

@DerangedKnite yeah it really does take sometime, here is the first ever thing i draw with a mouse on 2015 https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/themiamispellcaster/the-first-ever-animation-frame-i-did-2015
this one on 2017: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/themiamidesantos/zit-2017
and this one on 2022: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/themiamispellcaster/the-largest-port-in-latin-america-hd
it took me years to master it

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