I’m curious about how and why you use the brush smoothing/stabilizer when you draw with Krita. I was having a hard time adapting to drawing digitally until I figured out it the stabilizer was turned on (no lag) and tried drawing without it. Then I finally felt like my lines were my own, and it all got so much better. I do use a Wacom Cintiq, so I draw on the screen, and I wondered if the stabilizer makes more sense to different types of tablets.
I mean, I do tremble a lot (I take meds for that!) and still I couldn’t see how the stabilizer would be desirable for me. Maybe it’s something to do with the type of drawing I like doing? Or just the way I like drawing? The final result itself is not that much different, apparently, but it was more about the feel when drawing. I understand it might just be a matter of preference, so I was curious about other people’s reasons and uses. What are your thoughts on it?
For me, it was only a short journey together with smoothing, the more experienced I got the more it hindered me to paint as I wanted to. So today, I don’t use it in over 99% of the time painting, but seldom from time to time there can be use of it.
I wish you much fun in the forum and with Krita too, and always happy painting.
Some people like to use them with particular personal favourite settings but some people prefer not to use them.
You can try them all and adjust the settings to see how you feel about them.
I think that Weighted may be good for drawing smooth lineart. The choice is yours.
That’s interesting to hear. I remember reading something David Revoy wrote about turning it off for more detailed inking, which got me thinking having it off can indeed give you more control, in a sense. When do you find it can be useful?
That’s what I figured out, yeah But I didn’t notice much of a difference in either mode, but that might have something to do with how I draw, or the tablet, or my own ability to notice the difference. I was wondering about other people’s preferences and the reasons why they prefer having smoothing or stabilising on and off.
I do mostly line art and always felt weird drawing with either of those turned on. And in my case the end result doesn’t say much about that, which is also a curious thing to note.
I have a disorder that affects the control of my right hand, the impulses from the brain arrive basically delayed, that in itself makes painting problematic, but I paint without smoothing, but there are days when this delay also includes temporal fluctuations, then I can still work with the smoothing sometimes. But all in all, this disturbance ensures that I can unfortunately paint less and less often.
@Michelist ah, yeah, that makes sense. I can see how that can be a problem. I suppose painting digitally at least you can zoom in and out and have more control over what you can do then, apart from the brush smoothing.
@CadillacRancher interesting Did it take some getting used to when you started drawing digitally? My essential tremor is probably not as bad, though I’ve been taking meds for a while now, no idea how it would be without them to be honest. Before the meds I just sort of learned how to draw with the trembling (I called it style haha). What is interesting to me is that also because of the trembling I prefer drawing without the smoothing or stabilizer, because otherwise the lines don’t match my hand and my brain gets confused, even when I (obviously) get frustrated when drawing the same line over and over again until I get it right. Do you also draw on paper?
I do a lot of freehand painting and drawing so I like to keep the stabilizer off so, as you say, my lines are my own. I also want the strokes to keep up if I’m shading and going back and forth quickly.
I do use it sometimes though when doing more comic book style stuff and want cleaner line art without wobbles.
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