Hello everyone. I am quite busy drawing/painting these days, so I need to find some time to post. I assume this is a good problem to have
Anyway, one of my friends lent me his screen tablet Huion Kamvas 16. As I said, I am really not comfortable figure drawing with my Intuos (because no screen and shitty eye/coordination), so I was really eager to try the screen tablet. As expected, things are much smoother. However, this made me realize that using a pen tablet is much closer to painting than drawing. I like SOME of my figure drawings with pen and paper, but never managed to get a satsfying result with a pen tablet. I realized this is beacause I try to draw the way I would with a pen. After a lot of die and retry, I now understand that I need to set up my brush if I want to do that.
What are YOUR settings when you do figure drawing ? Here is what I got with a 5 pixels brush and sensitivity ON for everything. I might remove opacity sensitivity in the near future.
First two are 30 second poses. I find 2 of them are pretty sharp (will we agree on that ? ). It makes me realize that sharp angles for clear defined shapes really give a nice feel.
3 and 4 of 1mn gesture. They are more accurate and complete, but lack the expressiveness of the sharp 30s ones.
Last two are 5 minutes. I added the reference for "beautiful slender model" as it made me realize that when polishing, the devil is in the details. I placed everything by eye and did not check features all together. In the end, everything is too far apart, or too short, or too something. I guess this is why I find men much easier to draw, so many muscles and landmarks to place that you can't have HUGE fails.
Tell me what you think. Any constructive criticism is welcome.