Dragolope?

After years of drawing with pen and paper, I'm on the learning curve with a tablet and CSP myself. Having to unlearn and then relearn a few things.

Is it a surface style tablet or a monitor one?

It took me a while to get the connection when I got my first surface style tablet. What really helped me is trying to check the settings to have it match my monitor resolution as opposed to utilizing the whole surface area. I think it's called lock to aspect ratio or something like that. After that what I would do is I would draw tons and tons of contour line drawings and blind contour drawings traditionally to boost that hand eye coordination, as it feels almost identical to drawing with a tablet.

With a monitor the connection is a little nicer, but dealing with the lag and the super smooth screen surface can take a while. I tried setting mine up like an easel for painting as opposed to flat. That seemed to help me a ton as well! Though I ran into trouble with dual monitor setups. It takes a little monkeying around, or well... just removing the other screen works in a pinch.

Keep at it! Just gotta do a little a day and you'll improve :D I'm still figuring things out too, I guess we all are and there would be a problem if we weren't!

It's a monitor type, a Huion. And yes, I'm still working on trying to find the best angle for drawing. A current issue for me is getting used to the sensitivity of the pen tip, and drawing on smooth glass. Makes it harder to "ink" the lines as smoothly and as accurately as I'm used to being able to do on paper.

Coloring is MUCH easier though. No having marker bleeds, or regretting a color choice when its too late to make a change.

Yeah, just gotta keep practising. Its a skill, like anything else.

Yeah! I've got an XP-Pen Artist 22HD as my workhorse at the moment and have that same trouble.

Especially since with tablets not only is it a weird surface to draw on, but well, there's a bit of a disconnect between physical and software for lack of a better term. When I'm just sketching or otherwise I don't use anything, but I'm not afraid to use a stabilizer on my brushes when I start inking or otherwise.

First thing I'll do to improve my linework beside playing with stabilizing is double my image size when I go to inks. So when I resize it down it looks FAR smoother than if I had left it at it's initial resolution. The resizing kind of smooths out crusty edges on it's own.

What I'll do to keep my linework cleaner is to draw with my shoulder or elbow. Big sweeping motions that are quicker and cause less wobble than slower strokes. This can take some practice and undoing frequently can happen. Rotate the canvas if you find it easier too!

As for colour work, At least traditionally, I'l try to keep a scrap set of paper or cardstock just to play with colour palettes and themes on. Of course this doesn't ALWAYS work out but at least it provides a bit of a testing ground before going into finals. Great stuff!

Thanks! That's good advice about reizing the base drawing. I'll give that a try.

I've been penciling and inking on paper, scanning, and then digitally coloring. But its a pain to go back and try to fill in the lines. So trying to learn to "pencil & ink" digitally as well.

Oh yeah! I love to work traditionally too and do cleanup digitally when I can as well.

A little cleanup goes a long way and if you scan it in in a high dpi setting (i.e) 300 DPI/PPI or up it'll make the final resolution far larger for you to work with, then you can resize as normal to achieve the same effect which somewhat smoothes out those nasty little jaggies and things. But mostly I tend to work it into a digital final if I do that nowadays >_>