i do this all the time!

I can relate to that

Does it work?! (…too bad i can’t undo this post.)

interesting - the form of the stylus and ballpoint are similar, and how it glides across the surface. the lack of friction is the tricky part of the stylus and i think you're right that ball points also don't have a lot of that

What helped me a lot is that I bought a cintiq that has an imitation paper texture surface and I changed my stylus pen nib from the default slippery one to the one with more friction. These were nibs that came with the tablet. I believe you can buy a paper texture surface for any type though. I'm not sure. I think Amazon has them. @@lovelifedrawing

@@lovelifedrawing You can get screen protectors that add paper like friction and feel for the ipads

@@thacoolest13 The XP-Pen Deco V1 graphics tablet comes with a cover, and the Ugee stylus and Xp-Pen stylus work on each other's tablets, Ugee incorporated XP=Pen the latter stylus better than the Ugee stylus, it's a nice stylus . The major drawback with the Ugee U1200 & U1600 screen tablets are they require an HDMI port which many modern labtops don't have. You may guess I'm at th budget end of digital, even though my first tablet was a small Wacom. No drivers on Android or Chromebooks😀

Yeah i found it really interesting how my drawings changed. I tend to think the drawings are just what i care about, but they are also about what the material wants to create. that is also strongly the case with watercolour, where a big chunk of the work is being done by the water, almost like it's a collaborator

The 2D animators on YT tend to gravitate to the largest screen tablets, and I believe it's because it both facilitates the shoulder motion, lets them see their hand, and doesn't lead them to zoom in and get confused about what scale they are drawing at. There's a big divide in digital between whether or not seeing your hand is important, but there's a lot of agreement that zooming is a problem because of scale confusion. Your hand has less latency than the screen so it gives you slightly more ability to adjust a long stroke to be able to see it. On the other hand, the majority of the adjustment issue can be overcome by practicing blind contour more often and switching over to technical line tools when you want maximal precision for an ink line(n.b. I like MyPaint for this - it's a free app, uses a very cut down traditional-like workflow and has a nice set of curve and spline tools). But the scale issue is quite deadly because the thing we're doing in freehand is replaying a certain pattern of motion linguistically - we see a certain kind of line and we replay that motion like speaking a sentence. If we constantly change that scale, the work starts to converge on maximizing use of every pixel, which is a common trope of digital as a medium: adding way more detail than the composition calls for. Hence there is a thread of advice to stay zoomed out until the very end. Some of it can be stylistic - it's less important to digital painting to get really nice drafting because more of the work can be done in terms of massing and sculpting. And there's definitely interest in doing those kinds of very intensely rendered paintings. But I have also seen streams where people spend literal hours sculpting out linework that you could get with a dip pen in about 2 minutes. The result looks good but it's also kind of like, "only do this if you hate yourself". My conclusion is that there are many ways to get lost in digital's precision and turn into a programmer of your drawing instead of a performer. In general, I find that I do better at the sketch phase in traditional because it doesn't present these issues - the materials work in an exactly consistent, zero-latency, infinite-resolution way, so I'm free to just make the most of them on their own terms. I do struggle a little more with proportioning but the majority of it is handled by working on thin paper, flipping it over to polish up a mirrored version, then doing a graphite transfer if I want to finalize it. Digital has a lot of utility for enhancing traditional, and I really enjoy using it for hybrids.

Yeah chiselling shapes and lines is a great way to put it. If i didn't get the right taper on a line, i can cut back into it and still have it look like a natural mark

great! yeah i learned about painting through digital first, and then moved to watercolour. it was a lot easier to learn the principles digitally and then grapple with the watercolour itself after

My advice would be to meld the use of the 2 together. Start physical until you’re done or mess up, then, take a photo of that physical medium or “paper” and work on top of it digitally. I say this coz my decades long art career was a lot about this technique, before doing what I do now, which is more musical, written work. My socials such as IG has hundreds of examples of digital/physical 🎨 hybrids such as this. Good luck, keep enjoying it. Your curiosity already shows us you’re on the right path✊🎨🦋 -m.🇦🇺

Yeah there are lots of advantages to it for sure. Hope you enjoy them Andy! let me know how you get on with them

Don’t know what device you use but I was able to get a matte textured screen protector for my iPad which makes it feel almost like paper.

thanks! no i haven't covered that but i think it was fairly straightforward from what i remember

That shows you have a good instinct about what’ll make an image work

I think a charcoal pencil on smooth newsprint and sharpened a certain way allows a variety of strengths and widths of mark, and creates a certain level of grain. With regard the various brushes, I personally would suggest it sounds like you are already using a good selection of the brushes

Thanks for the tip!

If you go to the link he provides for Lane’s kit for PROCREATE, you’ll get a few textures with the purchase. When you see the kit, swipe and eurika!

It was a challenge and there was drama but your persistence and resilience paid dividends in the end. Your final enunciation was flawless and I think I speak for many that perhaps a happy tear was shed after our shared emotional journey. 🙂 Thanks for the accomplished tutorial also.

love you kenzo

yeah i went on a 'hero's journey' in this vid!

hi perhaps you'd like Henry Yan's art? Unfortunately, i can't find his book in print

​@@lovelifedrawing Never heard of him before, but I'll check it out. I've seen some good art images on google, probably with charcoal or just really great paper with different grades of pencils while blending to create that messy dust effect

I rest my palm on the screen

I am going to do a few more, including how to paint a figure sketch on the iPad. It might not be enough to call it a proper series though

I tried one but I couldn't get it to adhere without bubbles. So I just got used to the plastic on glass feel. This also means less wear on the pencil nib

Ahh, that's a good ... "point" :)@@lovelifedrawing

Applying a screen protector takes practice but if you know how to do it (cleaning the device properly prior, ensuring the environment doesn’t have wind or movement, using the cardboard piece to slowly apply the screen protector to avoid the bubbles) then I’d say the matte screen protectors are fantastic for drawing.

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no it wouldn't be hard i don't think, but you would need to do some practice and the drawings wouldn't look as good at first

oh really?! wow that's cool. although my lines are just emulating other, greater artists' lines

hey thanks for letting me know! I deleted it recently, since those tutorials are pretty old now. i didn't realise someone had linked to it!

that would be super cool what a great idea!