Traditional artist tries digital art for the first time!

Tutorial I followed:


F O L L O W M E

E Q U I P M E N T
- Adobe Premiere Pro to edit
- A lot of time and patience

[TemiDansoArt]

Happy new year everyone! Do you wanna see more digital art videos?👀❤️

[oyhbnqh]

As an artist that does mainly digital art, I will say that the main thing that makes it more... difficult... would be getting used to the digital tools themselves. adjusting how you coordinate your hands, the amount of pressure you use when drawing/shading, and for someone like me who uses a laptop + graphics tablet rather than an iPad, you have to train yourself to be efficient with keyboard shortcuts to switch between tools.

However, once you get through that learning curve, digital art makes artmaking so much more EFFICIENT! I prefer the word efficient rather than “easy” because easy implies that you need less skill to make art digitally. However any professional artist who does digital illustrations, or concept art for movies and video games will tell you that digital shortcuts and tools can only take you so far. You still need to have good understanding of proportions, values, and other traditional art skills in order to make a good digital portrait for example. But digital art does make things so much more efficient. Perspective drawing for example, is made so much easier with digital tools. There’s the glorified undo button we all know, and color picking! I’m not offended when people say digital art is “easy”, but rather Im afraid that new artists will be misleaded into thinking the computer or tablet does all the work for you. You still need a solid understanding of traditional drawing and artmaking skills if you want to be good at digital art! I still make sure to draw traditionally from time to time for practice :)

[hi-rwnl]

Honestly on the whole 'digital is easier or cheating' thing I think digital is more efficient. Not necessarily easy because easy means you need less skill ( and trust me blending gets very hard very quick even on digital) but efficient. This is coming from someone who does both traditional (painting) and digital

[NanaSomebody]

Yes, there is a way to select Color’s with a pencil. You go to the wrench button on the left, then prefs, then gesture controls, then eye dropper, and you can choose which action you want to preform to pull it up. Hope this helps!

[onefourtheloners]

Digital art is like learning a whole new skill, I still sometimes struggle when doing digital art.

[KaiInMotion]

Digital art is easier in the sense that you get the convenience of separate layers, but it's much harder in the sense that you have to relearn certain skills all over and it's harder to achieve textures. (At least for me. Texture is so intuitive and fun with traditional art but whenever I try to achieve certain textures digitally I STRUGGLE 😭)

[tallerynisabsent]

As someone who does both digital and traditional art, well done! I know it’s really hard (and kinda nerve-wracking) to move out of your comfort zone, especially into a new medium, and I think you did really well!

[Laurenelizo]

As a digital artist since 2007, as the years have gone by I have a greater appreciation for traditional art. Because of you I have decided to invest in some budget materials and get back to sketching, colouring, painting. I wouldn't tell anyone to rule out digital, but don't lose yourself to it.

[felipepaiva]

There is an artist here on youtube called "Billy not Bully". He does realistic portraits, and posts the timelapse in his channel. It might be helpful to you, to know his process, techniques, brushes and all. He also uses procreate. Good luck on your journey to learn digital medium! <3
Can't wait to see more since, I only have access to digital art medium.

[tiffanyzhang]

One thing about traditional artists moving to digital is how they treat digital art exactly how they do traditional. It’s not the same and you need to treat it like a new medium. When doing digital realism, it’s best to use digital painting. When drawing with pencil crayons, markers, or pastels this would be how you do it but it doesn’t come out too well when you apply the same logic to digital. In digital you want to be using lots of base colors, so colluding the entire hand first and painting the darkest areas. Then you can make a new layer above your sketch/lineart and render the drawing and all the details.

[facesncharcoal]

This is making me sad I didn’t have procreate when I started out with digital lol
I recently tried it on a friends iPad and the interface and tools are so smooth that it makes things so much more approachable, and it’s great! I made the mistake of starting to learn digital on a full drawing program (think Krita, photoshop, etc.) and oh my gosh it was overwhelming. I did end up figuring it out but it didn’t have a lot of good brushes so I had to figure out how to make them and then figure out lighting and oh man what a learning curve.

[MaiMaiMai]

I do both, usually traditional because I’m not always able to use my iPad. Traditional is a great feel, and digital is definitely different. I had a hard time getting started with digital, but I found the benefits really nice, and I use digital for planning/putting things down. Nice digital painting tho 😁👍

[idostuff]

lettering is so fun and easy to do digitally because you get a new dimension of control over the brush, it’s amazing

[chelseajxnes]

Digital art is definitely one of the highest things on my 'to improve' list for 2022 🥰

[thecraiyelledivine]

I think it honestly depends on what you're talking about. Because let's say with rough sketches I think digital is easier than traditional because you can erase as much as you want without ruining it because you can use more layers, and with layers you also cant ruin the coloring but if it was traditional, chances are the entire drawing is ruined. So honestly there are pros and cons to both😅

[go_go_baronbunny]

I'm a traditional artist but I had to go digital for my webtoon, and my GAWD!
It was waaayyyy harder than I thought 😭✋

[tiaraanderson]

You did soooo good !! the first time I tried it I drew a “person “ was kinda scary looking 💀 great job tho !❤️❤️❤️

[NariahCreates]

Ooo 💕digital art is definitely a different medium I think traditional and digital are very different!! I think personally they both have there difficulty’s I don’t think neither of them are easier depends on how you approach it✨

[talonstride]

Tomorrow is the new year, the next level to put your art skills to the test on your new iPad. You can do this, Temi.🎉🎈

[eva]

So basically, you can use the square on the left hand side of your screen (where the size and opacity is) and then it will enable you to use the pen and drag the little circle thing that comes up so that you can use the same colour as your reference. One you press the button you will understand (you can use the pen to press the button). Anyways, that is an absolutely AMAZING piece for your first time drawing digitally!!