

If you prefer colouring, feel free to trace. The third thing - and this is closely related to the second - draw any way you like. Of course, if you're going to build an audience, then you will have to cater to them but please don't forget, art comes from within and needs to give you joy. So anything goes as long as you get what you want out of the creative process. The second thing - and I cannot stress this enough - you draw for yourself and no one else. Look at this post as one person's view of Drawing. If you are already following one of those, please continue to do so. There is a vast array of masterworks, courses and reference material out there (books, podcasts, youtube videos, Udemy courses) that explains all the following much better than I can. It is focused primarily on digital Drawing. This post is about some of the shortcuts I have learnt and how you can use my learnings to jumpstart your drawing journey too. Also, it rekindled the joy of creating something with my own hands. From a technical perspective, I guess it wasn't great, but from an emotional one, it was a winner. In the end, I drew a kitty and a bunny hugging while professing love for each other. I opened it, took my Apple Pencil out and randomly drew some lines and added some colours. I had installed it a while back and never opened even once.

At a creative impasse, I was aimlessly browsing through the various apps on my iPad when I came across 'Autodesk Sketchbook'. I was bored again (anybody else notice the recurring theme?) plus I wanted to something to surprise my wife on our wedding anniversary. The subject was a tank with some delicate cross-hatching.Ĭut to February 2018. The occasion was a dreary yet horrendously complex class called 'Strength of Materials', and it was just after lunch on a hot Thursday afternoon.

(Note the thin, light line between the black and the red on the example to the left.I last drew something back in July 1997, I think. Using the Fill Bucket is also a bit better with the custom-brush than with the default. This is was makes the brush a bit more sharp - this is much better than adding the “noise” effect.Īnd here’s some comparing examples of the brush: (I do this to more or less all my brushes since I don’t like how the spacing look when you set a lower flow/pressure setting)Īfter that, check the box “Texture” and then under the options check the box “Texture each tip” and have 100% depth. So I discovered how you can make the brush a bit more sharper, but not too sharp so it would look like it was made in Microsoft Paint…įirst off, make sure that you set the spacing to 1%. And I really don’t wanna resize my images too much just to make the lineart appear sharper. But I don’t think the default “hard-round” brush is that sharp enough for my taste. I like sharp lines when I make lineart digitally. Minitutorial: How to make a nice, sharp brush for lineart in Photoshop
