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7 years ago
Getting started with drawing was hard. Is hard. First there were a few technical glitches to overcome. For one thing, my tablet seemed to be locked to my secondary monitor, which is smaller and situated above my primary one. This is fine for things like watching streams, chats, and email, but for things I need to pay close attention to for more than a few minutes at a time it's a bad idea. I also couldn't look up how to change it, because the digital manual that was supposed to come with the driver didn't install correctly.
Once that was fixed, though - mostly by downloading an updated driver and resetting the computer - things moved along. I'm going to be using Krita, a free digital paint program that was the best among a sampling of free or cheap art programs a certain YouTube artist tried out. (You can check out the video here.)
Of course, that presented me with new problems. A good art program is complicated! Fooling around a little, though, I did manage to make one image. And so I present to you, my very first drawing! Here!
I know, I know. The skill, the talent, the sheer awesome, it's all leaving you breathless. And to think, it'll only get better!
Seriously, though, for now I'm concentrating on learning how to use the tools I have. Most notably, how to use Krita. So I'm watching tutorial videos, especially this one, to see how to properly use the program. Once I understand the tools better, I expect I won't be intimidated quite so much at the prospect of using them. Which means I'll then be able to work on my hand-eye coordination and then, hopefully, learning to draw.
Once that was fixed, though - mostly by downloading an updated driver and resetting the computer - things moved along. I'm going to be using Krita, a free digital paint program that was the best among a sampling of free or cheap art programs a certain YouTube artist tried out. (You can check out the video here.)
Of course, that presented me with new problems. A good art program is complicated! Fooling around a little, though, I did manage to make one image. And so I present to you, my very first drawing! Here!
I know, I know. The skill, the talent, the sheer awesome, it's all leaving you breathless. And to think, it'll only get better!
Seriously, though, for now I'm concentrating on learning how to use the tools I have. Most notably, how to use Krita. So I'm watching tutorial videos, especially this one, to see how to properly use the program. Once I understand the tools better, I expect I won't be intimidated quite so much at the prospect of using them. Which means I'll then be able to work on my hand-eye coordination and then, hopefully, learning to draw.
However, it turned out that learning to draw was a lot harder than fixing stuff, and I failed that part. Hope you will be more diligent than me to manage that goal.
Personally I bounce between clip studio (low cost) and photoshop. Now, even though most my body of work is digital I so much prefer my traditional tools.