from 2011/22

2011

This year

 

Oh iPad you saved me

 Since the early 2010's I've first dabbled on digital painting, with trying out trial Corel painter once I've brought my first Wacom Bamboo tablet (which I still own). Once the trial ends I've moved on to Sketchbook Pro, which I find that's quiet useful but I don't remember watching a ton of video tutorial's around that time. Though Sketchbook pro is good for illustrating, but I wasn't good at rendering as I hoped to be. Few years later whilst I was in uni, I brought an iPad mini, with an Intuos 4. Now back then I had these tablets I still couldn't  seem to grasp digital painting to it's entirety, because been through uni life. Trust me, if you can find a tutor that doe's teach a thing about how to paint characters in Photoshop. I'd me miles away by now. Talking about Photoshop, I haven't realized how you can paint digitally on an portable tablet, such as an iPad, till I saw how you can use Procreate on the iPad pro. Now since I still had an iPad mini, I've tried using Procreate on it. But what held me back was the horrible styluses which doesn't follow the curser when painting on screen.   

At around the summer of 2020, I've given my old iPad mini to my nephew and decided to get an iPad Air and never looked back. The iPad air I still got now has given me a new perspective. Though everything's  new IOS i had to move on to because my old iPad mini could not update to it's new IOS, which is understandable. But hands on, I am enjoying the iPad Air than ever. I did had an iPad Pro but that was short lived as I though I was paying monthly but then had to move on to the iPad Air that I can pay for data and the device altogether, which is fine by me.

Throughout the few years I can now draw and paint on the screen itself and see how artists on Instagram do their pieces. As I kept trying I realized the iPad Air was quiet small and should've got the Pro. But the courier I was with don't have that, so I'm settled with the Air model till the next few years lol. Probably the next iPad model can be 10x better than my current one, though the 2022's iPad Air is like the iPad pro cos of the new M1 chip and even the same build of the model.

As of now I'm using Clip Studio Paint and Procreate. However I used CSP a whole lot more than Procreate because I'm loving that app. Even I've made a few brushes that I hope it works and probably put it out online for any artist can use.

I still got a lot of skills to improve. I still haven't brushed on anatomy though what it'll be better is to learn gesture poses first before learning anatomy. Those two skillsets should improve in a short amount of time, maybe? I'll see if I can find the time.

I'll find the time to post my art here for the first time. Just gotta sort out these appointments cos I'm looking for a part time job apparently, but nothing is working so I'm still pushing my art skills the nest way I can, though I'm starting to hate being procrastinated which is detrimental to me now lol.

The suns out and the weather has becoming warmer, so i should use my iPad to paint outdoors.

That is all, Later