TruckOSaurus said:
I got the Bamboo Capture, which is a pretty basic tablet. I wanted to make sure I would enjoy drawing with a tablet before I invested in something bigger and more expensive. So far I'm liking it a lot but I'm still getting the hang on drawing good lines with it. I never took any art classes so I developped some bad drawing habits that I need to get rid of. For example, I used to draw long curving lines by doing a series of short strokes with a pencil and while the result was pretty good on paper, doing the same with stylus is just not an option. Luckily Ctrl+Paint has tons of videos on loosening up and drawing from elbow/shoulder so I should get better soon. |
Oh that's good for feathery-y lines if you want them to be a little soft... both are good skills to have. Especially for detail work. A way we built confidence in larger lines is to go strictly large format to do warm-up sketches/large drawings... get an 18 X 24 newsprint pad, prop it on an easel, buy some vine charcoal and have a field day doing some figure sketches and other drawings. The Vine charcoal is pretty dusty, but that's the nice thing about it... it is easier more erasable than the other charcoal. You can sketch on Mi Tientes colored paper with it to build some interesting forms, then go over with charcoal pencil to get really good looking work that way too...vine is excellent for mindtones...
This is an example of what I mean from something I did in school a long time ago...
I sent you PM about it, but it's difficult to do large confident lines with a Wacom unless you have one of the larger ones (The Large or Extra Large). Some people buy the largest format for this purpose... or just because I guess... you can zoom out on an image though and get away with that easily. A good way to build your looser and more confident lines is to do gestures... basically, really fast gesture drawings of figures, objects, things of that nature... They look like this and you can do them on a large format in as little as 15 seconds. The less you pick up your hand the better. You can build over them a little with shading to help build/define the form, but the less details, the better I think... if you see sharp stops in the drawing and overthinking, usually not a really good gesture.
