Hi Naomi! How are you? Good, I hope, despite all the crazy. I had a technical question regarding digital art. I started experimenting with it, but I'm having trouble with the lineart. Yours is so smooth and natural in your drawings, so I was wondering if perhaps you might have any sort of advice to make it look like that?
I’ve been asked this question by someone else as well and I’d really love to create a video tutorial of this sometime soon to help more people out and demonstrate what I’m about to say but hopefully in the meantime this will be enough.
Usually in the art program I use I always utilize their stabilization/smoothing settings on the brush that I use for my lineart! Right now my main tool for lines in Clip Studio Paint is the Darker Pencil tool. Stabilization will help your lines stay smoother if your hand isn’t steady as a surgeon’s.
I have pretty steady hands and I also use a HUION Kamvas tablet and I am able to draw my lines directly on the screen, so I don’t use stabilization settings that are too high, or else it will slow down the flow of my brush strokes. Another technique is to start your drawing traditionally, and do all of your linework that way so you feel like you have more control. You can scan your image or take a picture of it and then color it digitally.
I hope this helps for the time being, and I do want to create a proper tutorial in the future for this and for the way I paint hair because a lot of people are interested in that as well! Good luck with your lines!!!
