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Question about digital art
| Don't.
| Practice more.
| Try a different software, maybe? Krita is epic for instance.
| It is pretty weird at first but yeah just keep at it.
If you find yourself having trouble drawing lines nice and smoothly, try enabling stabilizers. They're a really big help and can make a world of difference. I think it's aka smoothing?
All drawing programs should have them. In Sai, it's in the top right, next to the flip button. You can also right-click a specific brush to set a stabilizer level for that. The one on the top affects all brushes.
In Sai, I recommend checking S-5.
| Set stabilizer lower or higher to your preference
| I guess just see and try every program and soft/hard ware as possible until u get conformable
| Oh yeah, another thing you could try is messing around with your tablet's active area.
I don't see people talk about this often, but you can make it so the active area is only a portion of the tablet. For Wacom, it's under the "Mapping" tab in the Wacom Tablet Properties.
I use to set mine so that only 1/4th of the tablet's surface is actually being used. People don't recommend it because it's less precise and requires a lot of wrist movement which is bad for you later in life
| But I found that it helped me a lot at first. You can move your cursor from one end of the screen to the other in one stroke.
Eventually you'll want to wane off that. Once you feel comfortable, make the portion bigger and bigger and work your way to being able to use the full tablet area. Same with the stabilizers. I use to use S-7 on Sai, which is really strong, but now I'm on S-2.
| Random image of what I mean:
https://community.adobe.com/legacyfs/online/696802_Screen%20Shot%202014-11-10%20at%2016.41.02.png
If I remember any other beginner tricks I'll post them here. It's pretty annoying that all this advice was kinda disjointed and I had to visit multiple threads and posts to find what works for me, but those are the major things you can do to make it less awkward for you
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| find good brushes, or better yet, make your own custom brushes. some say this doesn't matter but i reeeaally think it does
| Dive into Clip Studio and find brushes that you like
| If you have problem with lines, try doing exercises, like filling all the canvas with strokes. Also doing lines on paper is useful for digital lines, but it's more easy to draw a good one.
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| So I'm trying to get back into drawing digitally, but it feels extremely awkward. Anyone have some advice?