Re: Adobe's Project Mighty & Napoleon
Jon I live in Scotland on the coast and they say the weather here changes very quickly so getting a pencil/pen and pad out can be slightly tricky. Normally it is the wind that causes most problems not the rain although the actual area is the 3rd wettest area in the UK so the pad in a binder works. I use a stylus which is not the usual rounded point thing where you don't have any control this has a sharper point which is better. Now I must be clear here I would prefer to use a charcoal pencil or roller ball pen and then use the traditional way to get it into PS/AI to finish it off digitally as my skills do not include watercolour or oils.
I have tried many times to use a wacom with my desktop programmes like you say it never really works but outside the I Pad is nearly like using a pencil. It is because it's so thin that you can twist and turn it about just like I would use a paper pad. I am not the type who can draw a landscape with the page held in one orientation like you see when an artist uses an easel. I tried the Wacom Inkling for about 4 hours, as I liked the idea of it, using paper and pencil which transfers automatically into AI/PS but it suffers from the same problem. I nearly ended up standing on my head using it as you have to keep the transfer head clipped onto the paper in the same place which restricted your hand movement.
You should try SketchBook Pro 6! as it has all the tools that you need for a raster package. It has templates with all the perspective grids that you need or want. I start drawing very crudely but I think quickly then using layers start to refine the drawing just working with lines with just a bit of shading, more like a pen & ink drawing and then stop. I take a few pictures of it through Apples sh_ te camera and I always feel silly here holding up, what looks like a personal folder, into the air to take the pictures. At home then I use Kuler to generate a restricted palette to use in PS.
When I first posted here at start of thread, like the big eejit (idiot) I am I posted it in the Gallery instead of the "chat" so I better look out one of my better ones and upload it.
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