I've just got into drawing and I find it easier with paper and pencil as I don't want to be distracted by technology. I don't have a drawing tablet anyway. I can see that each has advantages
I used to hate digital drawing, but I am way past that and now have some tools I have eyed or drawing specifically. However when I see physical art versus digital, I just have some mental block on still considering the ease of erasing as well as the ability to use layers is "cheating" in some way, yet I use Gimp and Photoshop all the time and do digital manipulation literally daily, so I recognize it is my own block and based on nothing more than probably jealousy that digital tools were not available when I was learning to draw. So it's funny you say you find it easier with the paper and pencil, I see it as the exact opposite, yet we both have not jumped in lol.
Definitely. I liken it to George Lucas & Star Wars. The better his access to technology got... the worse the movies got! Limitations can drive creativity.
And of course traditional media isn’t limited in every way. While digital may have layers, undos, and amazing tools, every stylus and software brush tool is always striving to match the capabilities of the natural tools they intend to replicate.
Welcome to my manual world where there is no zoom or anything like that, where if I use charcoal I have dirty hands of charcoal on all sides hehehehe
I change my sheets for your iPad Pro hehehehe (lie). I can not say much about digital art because I've never worked with that, but I do work with paper and pencil and I know I have a long way to go and improve, but I think digital art is easier because if you draw a picture on paper and pencil and at the end for some reason you make a mistake, basically you lost the hours of work and you must start over again, but with digital art that does not happen because you can make mistakes in many things but you can always fix it and return to your job.
It brings me back to the ways I worked for many years. Digital is wonderful for all the reasons you say, but making something physically and having a physical piece of original artwork is wonderful as well.
I’ll always have the safety of doing both. If something needs fixed I can edit it digitally afterward, as I’m more concerned with how the work will print or be reproduced, so I’m less upset if there is a mistake in the original!
Your practice and skills now will only make working digitally all the easier when you have the opportunity!
I don't know if you caught this video but this is the set up I want, big screen right next to the drafting table. Actually I can just embed, here is the video:
Currently I resemble more of the Sanford Greene with everything in cups lol
No, I haven’t seen this series of videos. Very cool! I love all the methods... I’m so torn between them!
I gotta admit I’m not sure what that big screen is doing... it looks like he has a Cintiq type tablet that has a screen and he just glances at the big screen occasionally to get a different view of his composition. I’d probably just end up streaming episodes of Family Guy on it as I worked!
I've done a bit of digital art in the past, and there are definitely some big bonuses to doing things that way (the glorious "undo" function, or the ability to delete/fine tune entire layers)... but I've always liked to draw with the good ol' pencil and paper. Even when I was painting digitally, the original linework was always done with traditional media.
I've started to rehash my old comic book, and will probably continue to work on paper, but a big part of me wants to start incorporating digital aspects.
I’ll be continuing to use digital for sure, much like you describe with your painting. There’s plenty of room for the two to mix. I believe I’ll be using pencil & ink, but still do layouts, colors, and letters digitally. We’ll see... lots of experimenting to do. Good luck with your own book!
That's so funny how your digital habits showed up when working traditionally. I find myself reaching to hit the edit undo buttons sometimes when I'm drawing in my sketchbook only to remember that there is no keyboard anywhere near me. Personally, I think working digitally helps me be more efficient which is so crucial when I need to meet deadlines. But I do love both forms; they both have their pros and cons and I see the value in both.
The natural art of Sarah looks great. Some days technology will just nickel and dime you to death. I always try to fight as few battles as possible, but sometimes you just got to go natural. I laughed out loud when you tried to use the pinch function on your real paper. It’s just so intuitive. Sometimes there are demons inside my drawing tech and I just want them to go away.
The pinch only happened once. The one that got me most was the two finger tap. That’s the Procreate undo shortcut and I use it a lot to redraw lines. It was like an involuntary muscle spasm whenever I got a line I didn’t like! But that’s really how I nickel & dime myself with the tech. Without it I was forced to just keep refining and building the sketches and they still worked out!
Sometimes it's hard to replace that amazing feeling of pencil and paper, even if you won't use it for your comics, you can just use it for fun.
I've just got into drawing and I find it easier with paper and pencil as I don't want to be distracted by technology. I don't have a drawing tablet anyway. I can see that each has advantages
I used to hate digital drawing, but I am way past that and now have some tools I have eyed or drawing specifically. However when I see physical art versus digital, I just have some mental block on still considering the ease of erasing as well as the ability to use layers is "cheating" in some way, yet I use Gimp and Photoshop all the time and do digital manipulation literally daily, so I recognize it is my own block and based on nothing more than probably jealousy that digital tools were not available when I was learning to draw. So it's funny you say you find it easier with the paper and pencil, I see it as the exact opposite, yet we both have not jumped in lol.
Definitely. I liken it to George Lucas & Star Wars. The better his access to technology got... the worse the movies got! Limitations can drive creativity.
And of course traditional media isn’t limited in every way. While digital may have layers, undos, and amazing tools, every stylus and software brush tool is always striving to match the capabilities of the natural tools they intend to replicate.
Welcome to my manual world where there is no zoom or anything like that, where if I use charcoal I have dirty hands of charcoal on all sides hehehehe
I change my sheets for your iPad Pro hehehehe (lie). I can not say much about digital art because I've never worked with that, but I do work with paper and pencil and I know I have a long way to go and improve, but I think digital art is easier because if you draw a picture on paper and pencil and at the end for some reason you make a mistake, basically you lost the hours of work and you must start over again, but with digital art that does not happen because you can make mistakes in many things but you can always fix it and return to your job.
It brings me back to the ways I worked for many years. Digital is wonderful for all the reasons you say, but making something physically and having a physical piece of original artwork is wonderful as well.
I’ll always have the safety of doing both. If something needs fixed I can edit it digitally afterward, as I’m more concerned with how the work will print or be reproduced, so I’m less upset if there is a mistake in the original!
Your practice and skills now will only make working digitally all the easier when you have the opportunity!
I don't know if you caught this video but this is the set up I want, big screen right next to the drafting table. Actually I can just embed, here is the video:
Currently I resemble more of the Sanford Greene with everything in cups lol
No, I haven’t seen this series of videos. Very cool! I love all the methods... I’m so torn between them!
I gotta admit I’m not sure what that big screen is doing... it looks like he has a Cintiq type tablet that has a screen and he just glances at the big screen occasionally to get a different view of his composition. I’d probably just end up streaming episodes of Family Guy on it as I worked!
I hope to have some day my own team to make digital art so I can say better about the subject.
But while that comes I do my drawings with pencil and paper as you say, so that when I get my tablet it makes me easy to do digital art.
I've done a bit of digital art in the past, and there are definitely some big bonuses to doing things that way (the glorious "undo" function, or the ability to delete/fine tune entire layers)... but I've always liked to draw with the good ol' pencil and paper. Even when I was painting digitally, the original linework was always done with traditional media.
I've started to rehash my old comic book, and will probably continue to work on paper, but a big part of me wants to start incorporating digital aspects.
I’ll be continuing to use digital for sure, much like you describe with your painting. There’s plenty of room for the two to mix. I believe I’ll be using pencil & ink, but still do layouts, colors, and letters digitally. We’ll see... lots of experimenting to do. Good luck with your own book!
That's so funny how your digital habits showed up when working traditionally. I find myself reaching to hit the edit undo buttons sometimes when I'm drawing in my sketchbook only to remember that there is no keyboard anywhere near me. Personally, I think working digitally helps me be more efficient which is so crucial when I need to meet deadlines. But I do love both forms; they both have their pros and cons and I see the value in both.
The natural art of Sarah looks great. Some days technology will just nickel and dime you to death. I always try to fight as few battles as possible, but sometimes you just got to go natural. I laughed out loud when you tried to use the pinch function on your real paper. It’s just so intuitive. Sometimes there are demons inside my drawing tech and I just want them to go away.
The pinch only happened once. The one that got me most was the two finger tap. That’s the Procreate undo shortcut and I use it a lot to redraw lines. It was like an involuntary muscle spasm whenever I got a line I didn’t like! But that’s really how I nickel & dime myself with the tech. Without it I was forced to just keep refining and building the sketches and they still worked out!
very nice i wish that i would be an artist like u. i always dreaming that to know about pencil art work. thanks for sharing such a nice sketches.
@bryan-imhoff u are a a great artist. heads of to you. i like your posts.
Thank you, much appreciated!
It's really great post....
Thanks for sharing....