I own an Intros tablet (yeah yeah, point and laugh) and I was wondering, how do I make my art look less scratchy with it?
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No, something more like "I can't draw a circle without it looking lumpy as fuck"
And that's just me using the entire arm from the shoulder. You don't want to see it the way I'd usually do it (with just the wrist/elbow).
You got it dude. BUT
Photoshop has the smoothing brush setting, and so do other painting applications. Investigate those.
Also my digital art is super fucking sketchy, the way I combat this is to draw on HUGE canvases. I've never been able to make a smooth line in my life so I have to compensate.
Here, look at my art at full res and you'll see. Super sketchy.
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Photoshop don't have one, bruh.
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Which program are you using? I've been using adobe illustrator.
And how big is your stylus? I have an iPad mini and was discouraged for the longest time from using it for art because I had medium sized stylus that I ended up just using to type with.
However I recently bought a much smaller stylus and holy crap does it make a huge difference! If you're looking to make smoother lineart, try using a smaller stylus.
Or if you're using an iPad mini (like this fag typing out this message) and have money to burn, get the iPencil ($129 Canadian). Though it works much better than the run of the mill stylus I really wouldn't drop 1/4th of my pay check on it.
Hope that helps somewhat
And how big is your stylus? I have an iPad mini and was discouraged for the longest time from using it for art because I had medium sized stylus that I ended up just using to type with.
However I recently bought a much smaller stylus and holy crap does it make a huge difference! If you're looking to make smoother lineart, try using a smaller stylus.
Or if you're using an iPad mini (like this fag typing out this message) and have money to burn, get the iPencil ($129 Canadian). Though it works much better than the run of the mill stylus I really wouldn't drop 1/4th of my pay check on it.
Hope that helps somewhat
There's a great third-party stabilizer program for Photoshop called Lazy Nezumi Pro. It costs 35$, though.
I am aware of that though. Problem is that I can't afford it at the moment.
I was considering the free trial period though. Might give that a swing.
GIMP is free and has built-in stroke smoothing.
It's pretty good. It depends on whether you need a vector or raster program. For raster I would recommend Paint tool Sai, GIMP, Photoshop, etc... for vector I would definitely take a look at Illustrator, CorelDraw, Inkscape, etc... I have no earthly idea what OPs needs or budget are, so I suggested GIMP and Inkscape because they're both free and will get the job done.
Oh I already have Photoshop so I'm fine with Raster-based programs at the moment.
Photoshop is weird in that it doesn't natively do line/stroke smoothing. Nearly every other graphics program does. If you're married to photoshop then you're just gonna have to save your shekels and buy one of the add-on programs. If not, then try something like GIMP. GIMP will do just about everything Photoshop can (just not quite as well), but since you're used to photoshop already, learning GIMP will be like learning to operate a right-hand-drive stick shift.
EDIT: It might also help to know a little bit about what kind of work you do. I'm assuming that you're not just wanting to draw better pen-tool circles. You might be better served doing your line art in one program and then doing other things in Photoshop.
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Actually, I also own GIMP, and in fact, used it before I got Photoshop. I just went with that because it was more powerful. I've found that GIMP's stabilization isn't much better than PS's in my experience drawing in that program.
Also, I basically use the program for drawing and occasional photo editing. I use GIMP mostly to do textures for 3D work these days due to PS being my main drawing program.
I've done that before, it can get pretty lumpy when I try for straight on circles. So I just save it for more complex shapes and just use the "Rectangle" and "Circle" tools for those simpler ones.
Ive read that you can attach apiece of paper/tracing paper to the tablet so that you get more of the feel of resistance and texture of the paper, but really it comes with practice. Continue drawing from the shoulder, sort of, and there is a line smoothing program called LazyNezumi, but it costs money I think and is only for windows.
