Digital Art
New year! So time for me to pick up a new hobby, right? Hahaha… yeah. Like I need another hobby. But I’m doing it anyway. In fact, I started today. AL got me a Dragon Art book for Christmas. I’ve been sketching some dragons these past couple years and wanted to make more to hang in our bedroom (which is dragon themed). When I went through the new Dragon book, I was in awe of the digital art dragons especially. That led to me looking up digital tablets. Which led to looking up digital programs. Which, after a week of nonstop research and stressing, led me to rush into getting a Wacom Intuos4 tablet in order to get a fantastic deal on a copy of Photoshop CS4 before the year turned over. The tablet came with some free software, one of which is called Autodesk Sketchbook. What a fantastic program for sketching!
I was expecting to have quite a bit of trouble with sketching on the tablet at first. Most people seem to. But I took to it pretty quickly. I can’t sketch quite as well as I can on paper… but I’m really surprised at how well I adjusted. I don’t have Photoshop yet, and that’s the main program I’m going to use to learn the digital art techniques. For now I’m just sketching on Autodesk Sketchbook to get a feel for the tablet. I wanted to share my sketches for today.
This is my second sketch. Of course I had to make a dragon. It turned out alright. I can’t quite get the edges rounded yet, but I’ll be working on it.
