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hellooooo! just letting you know i’m going to be posting my art from @fellow-mammal from now on! i’m not deleting anything from here (not that there is much) but I’ll probably be using this blog for like. idk. reblogging art references if ur interested in that. seeya there :p

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The humble bookwyrm. 📖

#shh he’s reading how to draw anime #dragon #artists on tumblr #wyrm

I love to see fellow artists from down here sharing their artwork! Are you a JAFA

that the first time ive seen that acronym. but nah im not from auckland!

What app or system do you use to draw digitally?? I can't for the life of me find a good cheap app (or maybe I'm just bad at drawing lol)

The stuff I’ve been posting is drawn in procreate!! one time purchase but you need a tablet (an ipad? im on ipad. idk if its ipad exclusive.) and a stylus (apple pencil in my case). there’s a good variety of downloadable brushes for it out there, both paid and free.

I also use Clip Studio Paint for PC but im not sure if they’ve just totally moved to a subscription model or not. I bought my version years ago on sale as a one time purchase and it’s been working great!!! also has a good variety of downloadable brushes and other tools made by the community (LASSO FILL MY BEST FRIEND LASSO FILL). it can also use photoshop brushes but the brushes may not look as they were meant to bc of program differences. it also has my fav feature: you can clip layers to groups of layers instead of Just One. very versatile.

i’ve used photoshop but their subscription is baaaad. (as in they make you subscribe for a year at a time even if ur paying monthly. at least that was the case 3 years ago idk abt now.)

if you want a free photoshop lookalike that just runs in your browser, look up photopea!

if you need a free program to tide you over, i remember firealpaca (also PC) being Pretty Good!! it’s got all the basics an art program needs.

Sidenote!!!-

being able/unable to draw is utterly unrelated to knowing digital programs!!! i used to suck at drawing digitally for a While even though i was pretty good at drawing on paper! programs are a tool like any other, and skill is built up over time. (not to mention with screenless drawing tablets you basically have to train yourself to draw without looking at your hands) (AND you have to remember a bunch of shortcuts so you dont spend 1000 years going through menus) (PLEASE LEARN TO USE CLIPPING MASKS IT WILL SAVE YOU SO MUCH TIME AND ALSO YOUR WRISTS) (also have you sEEN the masterpieces some people make in mspaint or kidpix? its insane. dont make yourself think that you can’t be an artist without fancy tools!)

anyway! good luck! 👍

EDIT: i forgot to mention that pen stabilisation can really affect how it feels to draw digitally!!! CSP and procreate have pretty good stabilisation but photoshop (and likely photopea) make it feel rly sluggish and bad. i dont remember abt firealpaca

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