Sep 14, 2017
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dear diary: today I discovered procreate has a timelapse feature I also discovered that uploading videos to tumblr is perplexing and so here we are on third try and I suspect they are all gonna appear on the dash ten minutes from now
hi!! big fan of your art, especially your recent "expressions" series. may i ask what art program you use? i'm looking to get into digital drawing soon (as in five months ago but who's counting) and could really use some good program recs. no worries if you dont get to this. just know your art is impressive and it makes me smile :)
I use a few different programs, actually!
On desktop, I go between Clip Studio Paint EX (nee Manga Studio) and Adobe Photoshop.
Clip Studio Paint is a lighter-weight program but still pretty versatile -- it has some excellent default pencil/pen/paint tools to pick up and roll with. I use it when I want to work quickly/for less detailed projects.
Photoshop is the be-all and end-all of programs, but does have a learning curve -- I switch to it when I want more fine-tuned control over everything. The default brushes are a’ight, but Kyle Webster’s brush sets are AMAZING to use instead... highly recommended, and absolutely worth the investment. He pushes lots of updates and add-ons to each pack, so they’re always getting improved or expanded, and often at no extra cost.
Lately I’m a lot more mobile-leaning in my set-up, and have been working with a cheap but surprisingly amazing combo of: Apple iPad ($99 deal) + MEKO stylus pen ($15 for two and tons of spare nibs) + Procreate ($6). With the MEKO pen I lose the pressure-sensitivity control (would need to shell out way more $$$ for an Apple Pencil or a Wacom pen for the iPad), but Procreate compensates really well for still getting the line variation that I want. It is absolutely crammed with features, is super intuitive once you learn the gestures for it and what it can do, has a really robust community that expands its features further, and blows every other art program for the iPad out of the water. A lot of professionals have confessed that they got iPads solely to use Procreate, ha!
In fact, everything I’ve made since getting active again in July has been done with that set-up, including the Expressions series. Honestly, can’t recommend it enough!