Getting digital

[getThemAlive]

Hello!

This is my first post on the sketching forum - I am right now in the middle of getting used to digital drawing and sketching.
Took quite some time (about 2 years) to get from analogue:



to digital:



... and there is still a long way to go.

I will update this thread about once in a week, so you can monitor my progress

If you're interested in my older works you can find a lot on my blog:
http://www.drewing.de

Ingmar

[Urbanspinner]

Ha ha ha! It took me a moment to realize what your second sketch was (I was too busy looking at your contour shading!)

I love my iPad and use it for just about everything... but sketching. I keep trying, though. I've downloaded a bunch of drawing programs, purchased different styluses, read people blog posts and tried things for myself... but I just can't adapt to the lack of texture. I need that feedback sensation from the paper and my drawing tool.

Did you find it difficult to make the transition?

[RajeshS]

:) The first is funny :) :) :)

I visited your site!

Welcome to the forum Ingmar - you were just the person we were missing! To add a dash of fun and humour!

Very very professional drawings - to draw from imagination - I can't imagine for myself!

Oh I added later: I am a non-digital guy although am an IT guy! I somehow am learning to use the traditional stuff - so I will just enjoy from the sidelines. Good for you though - people get tired of my questions and comments!

rajesh

[Mostho]

Welcome here!
Lovely sketching man. You are so good in both digital and in traditional!


Cheers!

[Elva]

Your work is fascinating..... very polished. For those of you who haven't done it, a trip to Ingmar's web site is a treat.

I love it that there are so many ways to express ourselves.

[gpathy]

Hello Ingmar,

welcome to the forum.
great drawings.

though I personally love the analogue vulture... so much more soul into it!
what software/tablet are you using?

[nelchee]

Hey

You've made a great transition. Your linework is very clean.
Your comics are awesome

I was into digital art since childhood (MS Paint lol), so I was always working on my drawing techniques in parallel - a bit of traditional drawing, a bit of digital
Once you get accustomed to the tablet, it becomes as easy as traditional sketching...

[Robert T.]

Welcome to the Forum. I truly enjoy your work. I am just test riding an iPad after its been sitting for 2 years in the closet. I will experiment with as much an open mind as I can. My sons are all over me about technology and the sketching apps available. It may take me more than two years (no doubt).

I presently have to agree about the texture issue. I can't feel the paper, the pressure, the grind and light touch of the lead passing across the page creating varyng line weight. My hands get dirty and I'll smug in areas to control light, shade and character. It is such a haptic sensation that the lead is an extension of my hand through my minds eye.

This sense of touch and involvement is probably why I also like driving a stick shift. I like driving the car and not the car drive me. Maybe I'm just old.

Welcome again, looking forward to more posts, love the variety in the forum.

Have a geat day. Robert

[Urbanspinner]

Actually, I somehow forgot about tablets when I posted my first response! My main "computer" now is my iPad, but I used to do a ton of freelance commercial work in Photoshop and Illustrator using my Wacom tablet. Tablets have a texture similar to smooth paper, and the pen gives tactile feedback as it is wiped across the surface. So I didn't have many problems adapting to it. The iPad is such a different beast, though. The glossy smooth surface and the fat, squishy stylus just throw me off.

However, there is a new type of iPad stylus, made from optical fibers, that looks and feels like a standard watercolor brush. Nomad and Sensu are two brands I've read good things about. I'm curious about them, but not curious enough to buy one yet. (If I were already doing a lot of sketching on my iPad, then I think it would be a great investment. But I think about how much watercolor paint and paper I could buy with $40, and I just can't justify it to myself.)

[BeginAgin]

These are super pictures. Such fun. That bird looking in the
mirror and that man doing the old dance.

You guys seen this? It's in German, but for those of you who
do not know it, it's self-explanatory. The girl asks, "How do
like your ipad we got you, Papa?"


http://www.snotr.com/video/8965/%20

Hope the link works.

annie

[Rocket Jones]

I've seen that video, it's hilarious!!!

I saw one of those conductive brushes and was very excited until I discovered that they're only useful (at the present time) on an iPad. I could barely justify a Kindle Fire for something like that, but an iPad is way out of my price range right now.

Like you said though, at $40 or so for just the brush, that's a lot of paint and paper. It also makes that travel squirrel mop I've been eyeing seem like a bargain.

[getThemAlive]

Thank you all for your replies - this forum is overwhelmingly alive!

@gpathy I am using a wacom intuos 4 tablet (A5). I think it's haptically much closer to the "real" thing compared to the older versions. But the software part is nearly more important - I wouldn't have put much energy in the digital drawings if it hadn't been for manga studio. It's really much, much better for drawing than photoshop (or even painter)!
The layers can be limited to 1bit colour depth - which is imho the reason for the extremely short delay between the movement of the hand and the movement of the cursor.

@Robert T. I tried some drawing apps on my smartphone, but I think the wacom tablet is truly the better tool. Even the haptic has been improved (the surface is slightly rough, much closer to the feeling of pencil on paper).

@Urbanspinner hm ... sounds interesting. I've got no iPad, so I won't use this anytime soon, but the idea of simulating a cintiq-like tablet with the iPad is pretty tempting ...

My latest drawing is slightly olympically inspired (and perhaps a bit creepy)

[Urbanspinner]

It's wonderful! You've got a great eye (*groan* Bad pun, I know) for shapes and contours.

[getThemAlive]

I like puns - I think they fit one of my favorite wisdoms of Dr. Seuss:
"I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells"

[mdmattin]

I like how you get such sensitivity into your line work, especially using a tablet. I admire how you got the table tennis player's eyes to converge on the ping pong ball - they really seem to be making eye contact. That must have required subtle perspective drawing and strong imaginative powers.
Matthew