Ahh the weekend! I wish it was more than two days so I can get more accomplished. I have made it my goal this year to not keep wasting my weekends being a couch potato and put myself to good use. I want to get into more hobbies and stimulate my creativity.
For the moment I have decided that I want to learn how to do digital art. About 3 years ago I had bought myself a drawing tablet and my fiancee bought me Manga Studio 4 so I could learn.
Yeah...loaded manga studio and photoshop, which came with the tablet, and found it so intimidating I quit after the second or third try. :/ So bad, I know.
Luckily though, when I started working I got placed as a designer. I had to learn how to use unigraphics or NX for my job. In that role I have to construct models and drawing from scratch. (Fun fact: I feel like everyday that I go to work I go to play and have fun making complicated shapes!) After I mastered how to use that software I notices that it was similar to digital art. You start very basic and work your way up to the desired shapes you want. See, I told you engineers are artists!
So with this in mind I decided that if I learned how to use NX then I am going to learn how to use photoshop and manga studio for digital art!
I spent all of today tinkering with photoshop and getting accustomed to the tablet.
That was actually pretty easy to do. Above you can see my Wacom Bamboo tablet and tell that it is very large. It feel very natural as if you are drawing on paper. As far as drawing while looking at the screen...not that hard getting used to at all. You see where your cursor is and can draw normally.
I have been using some very helpful tutorial on youtube and one in particular that I got from pinterest. Here is the link:
This page contains 25 episode that cover different topics on photoshop. I have found them to be extremely helpful!
I will keep practicing in the meantime and when I get decent at digital art I will show my progress!
XOXO,
Lina
This looks like so much fun!!! I hope to try it in the future!!!
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