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ARTIST QUESTION 1: How do you have your tablet set up?
14 years ago
at first I was like ◔ω◔ I am curious, mister and misses artists, how you use your tablet?
What I mean is.. Do you have it on a flat surface while you sit and draw on it? Or do you angle it up? This is more of a question to those without touch-screen tablets since I don't even have one in my dreams!
These past few years I have been drawing, holding my pencil and pen identical to the way I hold them when I write. It never occurred to me that I could hold it differently. I was complaining about pain when I realized I was gripping my pen like an empty tube of toothpaste, trying to squeeze the digital ink out of it.
So tell me and I'll tell you!
I use my tablet on a flat surface on a desk, a lot of my movement comes from my wrists rather than my arms. It's not the most comfortable thing, but I heard a quote (and am too lazy to look up the origins) which really inspires me:
"There are no rules, only tools."
What I mean is.. Do you have it on a flat surface while you sit and draw on it? Or do you angle it up? This is more of a question to those without touch-screen tablets since I don't even have one in my dreams!
These past few years I have been drawing, holding my pencil and pen identical to the way I hold them when I write. It never occurred to me that I could hold it differently. I was complaining about pain when I realized I was gripping my pen like an empty tube of toothpaste, trying to squeeze the digital ink out of it.
So tell me and I'll tell you!
I use my tablet on a flat surface on a desk, a lot of my movement comes from my wrists rather than my arms. It's not the most comfortable thing, but I heard a quote (and am too lazy to look up the origins) which really inspires me:
"There are no rules, only tools."
Want me to take a photo of it? =3
I balance mine on a thigh, tilted up slightly, maybe 30 degrees or so?
I have small hands actually
Mind you, I suck at drawing, so disregard this.
It sits flat on top of a mouse mat, and even though I'm right-handed, I've twisted my Bamboo Pen tablet to the left-handed setting so the wire isn't jammed up against my keyboard~ x3
Sometimes I get achey but only if I draw for very long periods of time, and the only thing that gets really achey is my OTHER arm, not the drawing arm. I guess I sorta lean my body weight on my left elbow while I'm drawing. LIKE A WEIRDO.