The Ultra Fem

Drawing with a Wacom Tablet —

I've had a Wacom Bamboo tablet (the cheapest, smallest tablet they make!) for a couple of months now, and I'm starting to get pretty good with it. It's been easier than I thought it would be. Sketching has come very naturally, but inking has been difficult. I've tried using Paint Tool SAI, a Japanese art software made especially for drawing. I must say, sketching feels very natural with SAI, but inking just doesn't work for me. SAI has a special inking layer that uses vector lines instead of pixels. While I would LOVE to have the clean lines of vector art for my inking lines, I find it very hard to control, and it feels very unnatural. I'm also having a great deal of difficulty getting the tablet buttons and pen controls to work properly with SAI, which is odd because I thought SAI was designed with tablets in mind.

So I'm using PhotoShop for tablet drawing, and it's going very well! I'm already used to the color and brush controls, so there's not much to learn. The tablet and pen controls work better, too. I've just today completed my first "all-tablet" art, and you can see it HERE! Everything was done with the pen: sketching, inking, color, special effects, ALL of it! The inking lines are the weakest part, I know, but it's gonna get better!

(Don't complain about not being able to see it! Just JOIN FurAffinity for christ sake!)

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