lol good luck.

LUCK? I don't need LUCK. I'm Fenris49!

oh gawd she's strapped us down guys we'll have to watch her draw forever .D.

(in all seriousness great job on a new start.)

YOU'LL WATCH FOREVERRRRRR

It's a good keep from your last one. Getting used to it?

Little by little. I think I'll get the knack of actually DRAWING with the tablet pretty quickly... it's using the painting program that's gonna be a brain-squeeze, like, figuring out all the nuances and shortcuts and whatnot to make it DO that's gonna take some time T_T

here's a tip to speed up your workload; if you're a compulsive eraser like I am, set your stylus' buttons to be Undo and Redo! This saves a lot of time and effort getting a line juuuuuuuust right, especially when inking!

Yup, one of the first things I set up ^^ Put an 'undo' on one of the little buttons on the pen

I'm excited to watch this new chapter unfold. My style changed in ways I did not foresee.

I recommend Sketchbook Pro as a good tablet/sketchpad transition, the tools feel more authentic and less artificial. Plus it's WAY less expensive than Photoshop.

Oh, and happy birthday!

Seconded for sketchbook pro, especially if you got a tablet that will allow you to use your fingers to navigate, because you can do zoom/rotate/pan functions with your hands.

There is a free to use forever version called the copic edition that has limited tools and functionality, if you want to check it out: http://copic.jp/en/sketchbook-ce.html

Hmmm... Is sketchbook pro free? 'Cause right now, I'm mostly on board with anything I can download for free ^^ ...legally is a plus.
And danke! :3

Not free, I picked up my copy for $40.

That's pretty cheap as far as these things go... I'll keep that in mind!

Oho! I didn't really have thoughts in my head earlier (for the first picture) BUT now I do.

This is pretty good! Keep at it. Definitely don't throw out the pencils though. I wish I bothered with them more, personally. I don't have a working scanner...kind of. It works, but doesn't like talking to 64-bit OSes. There's a lot of neat shortcuts you can do with digital though.

ALSO if you are, perhaps, looking for other programs to try working in, have a look at Krita! https://krita.org/

It's a little...wonky, in places. Worth a look though, and free! For realsies-free, not Internet-Free.

Ya ya, definitely gonna keep up with my traditional art :3 Hard to lug my computer and my tablet out to the park to do sketching ^^

And I'll take a look at Krita. Given photoshop and Sai a try, so I'll see about this'n, but it'll prolly be a bit before I figure out which one's doing what for me really

Well this is an exciting turn of events! Now that you can doodle live on your screen, gonna start doing stream commissions or let people watch you do your comics?

Eeeeventually I might, once I really get the hang of things

I love watching the process of relearning drawing on a tablet!

I think I'll get the knack of using the tablet pretty quickly... But it's gonna be working out the mechanics of the drawing programs that'll take me a while :p I'm... ...not fabulous with computer stuff 9_9

I know you'll get there!

*scrub scrub scrub*

SHOPPED! SO SHOPPED! even admits it :P

This guy's a phony! A GREAT BIG PHONY!

I can tell by the pixels :B

What? no, it's totally all real! I swears! >_>;

Photoshop is, ironically, terrible for tablet input. It has no smoothing, which is why your output looks so jaggedy. Once the pixels are on the page, they're set in stone, so the program can't look at where you put the stylus next to figure out how to smooth it properly. (This wouldn't be a problem if they had the infinite input resolution of paper, but they don't.)

Most digital artists on FA use a Japanese program called Paint Tool SAI which is super-responsive and actually stores stroke information in a minimalist vector format rather than painting pixels directly. Other popular programs include Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, and Inkscape. Matelk's suggestion of Krita is probably worth considering, too, though I don't know much of anything about it. (But it's from the Linux KDE project, so it may not be super-fast on Windows...)

Downloaded and tried out Sai, and gonna give Krita a look-see too. But, yeah, it might be a while before I figure out which one's doing what for me, as far as convenience of the setup and all that jazz.

Looking nice already imo. =)

I wish you good success and certainly won't mind seeing you posting results here bit by bit! :D

Danke :3 I really wanna get good at this so I can stop using so much paper and pens and ink T_T

How good a tutorial this is I don't know but if you are trying out Krita this popped to my mind as I saved the bookmark in case I ever tried it myself http://tysontan.tumblr.com/post/910.....g-app-tutorial

Your traditional art is amazing, I just know your digital art is going to be just as amazing :D

Ha ha, thanks X3 I'm really enjoying digital so far- Layers are soooo god-dang nice. I can just go in and keep adding and adding and adding details to a picture even after I've "inked and coloured" it :D

Yup! Layers definitely help. Digital has it's cons, but does have it's pros. Will we still see traditional work from you too?

Yah, yah, I won't throw out my pencils or nothin' ^^ It's nice to still have paper and sketchbooks to doodle in. :3