you inspired me to start making digital art ❤️

vetyr:

Holy lord anon that’s terrific

If I can give you a few starting tips so you don’t mess up as bad as I did when I first started:

1- enabling transfer/opacity with pen pressure makes it orders of magnitude easier to blend; just push harder or lighter depending on how you want your colors to come out

2- if you’re trying to learn colors or values and you’ve already screwed up a few attempts with a certain ref, don’t be afraid to pull that ref image into your drawing program and directly color pick from it with the eye dropper tool- sometimes it’s just really really hard to figure out what you’re looking at, there’s no shame in this as long as you learn and take careful mental notes of your mistakes

3- drawing with a tablet is hard when you first start out, and you’ll notice a serious drop in line quality as you get used to drawing in one place and having an image pop up somewhere else.  It’s weird, and it happened to literally everyone who started drawing digitally (unless they jump in with a cintiq, but I’m assuming you’re not doing that)

4- you don’t need certain special brushes to draw well, practice with default brushes will get you just as far as (if not further than) practice with other random brushes

5- don’t work too small (unless you’re doing pixel art), I really wouldn’t recommend going below 1000 px in either dimension because you tend to lose a lot of detail that way; you can always resize your art after you’re finished, but give yourself more freedom when you’re actually doing the drawing

6- as with any other skill out there: you will get better as long as you do it a lot.  Trust in at least that much.