Please can I have some advice on how to start with digital art. I have no experience at all. I use windows and a drawing pad. I would get a tablet but I can’t afford that so i want to make do with what I can. I use the Huion Note pad to draw so i can use actual paper and pencil to do it, but that defeats the point of using digital art. So any advice, tips or YT videos are appreciated.
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Welcome! Do you have experience in drawing traditionally? Colors?
Tell us more about the style you’re going for and what you need help with, if it’s more technical like “how do I separate lineart from the background in a scan/photo” or general art pointers.
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I agree with Celes. We need more information about your goals beyond the “digital art” blanket, as it covers all sort of styles and methods. How one would approach mimicking a traditional Oil painting style, could be greatly removed from the methods used to do cell shaded anime/cartoon art, and different again from trying to do something like pen and ink work. And even each of those have different methods to them.
It’ll be rough going without a tablet or display tablet, though. I started out with a mouse years ago (because at that time tablets were only getting started and cost a literal fortune, in comparison to what we have available today).
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I’m sure you can learn a lot by going through the Krita Manual!
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In principle, you can make art without using a graphics tablet. In the beginning, I would draw on paper, do the final artwork in ink, and then scan it with a very primitive and cheap scanner. Here is an old example from 2006.
I was able to colorize and give some effects with the mouse, using some specific tricks and brushes. Here is the previous drawing, colored.
In one of my jobs, I drew and colored everything with the mouse, more or less like this. I used a brush that gave a dot effect, like here:
That brush was great, but depending on the image, it required me to make excessive movements with my hand… until, one day, I overdid it and my hand started to hurt.
I explained that I couldn’t continue working that way and suggested that they buy a Wacom, which was affordable. They agreed. I’m just saying all this to remind you that you should be careful not to overdo it when using only the mouse.
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Welcome, im just starting as well, from what i understand; just do it. Practice makes perfect, (maybe start w drawing stick figures idk)
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