I have a Cintiq tablet at home, the third tablet I've ever owned. While it's a bit fiddly with its cords, it's a fantastic bit of machinery, and even displays what I'm looking at, making it very useful (though I wish I had two screens to use it with). At any rate, using a Wacom tablet isn't a new thing to me. So as an entirely unrelated project, I was commissioned to draw a piece for a friend online. The friend offered to pay me up to $30 for a drawing of her character, and I was perfectly ready to jump at the chance! With that, my drawing (the "trial" version):
Yes okay it's a dreadful watermark, but that's not the important thing here.
I worked in Photoshop, with primarily hard round brushes. There are flat colours in this, but overtop of those is a shadow layer and an overlay highlight layer, which I think makes up for the 'flat' colours. This is just how I start most of my pictures. The background was a quickly whipped-together cloud (I had already gone well past my three-hour time allotment for this picture) but the important part is that the piece is done. A fairly well-designed anthro character (their design) for the commission price. I still have yet to get their reaction, but I imagine they're likely to enjoy it.
Most everything I draw digitally is with a tablet, so this really wasn't a challenge for me. I just had to show off whatever I worked on most recently, and this was it!
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