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Looking back at my first drawing tablet, that $300 felt like a fortune but it honestly taught me more about pressure sensitivity than any tutorial could.
After saving up for months back in 2015, I bought a basic Wacom Intuos and its initial frustration with wobbly lines forced me to actually learn hand control, so what's a piece of old gear that shaped your early process?
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zarakim7mo ago
Remember my first cheap scanner, it had this awful color shift that made everything look muddy. I spent weeks trying to fix scans in Photoshop before it clicked that I should just get the drawing right on paper first. That stupid machine basically forced me to nail my traditional inking because I couldn't rely on fixing it later. Kind of a pain at the time but it definitely built a better habit.
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ninaramirez7mo ago
Actually used to hate my old slow computer for crashing during big files, but it taught me to save constantly and work in smaller chunks.
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henderson.wesley7mo ago
Totally, my old printer would only work if you fed it paper one sheet at a time, which basically trained me to proofread every single page before it printed.
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