I am beyond the point of frustration. I cant draw curved lines... I try doing big broad strokes but i cant do it. I have ctrl-shift-z as a button on my tablet. Im constantly trying to stroke these perfect curves like gabe dose. It never works! Am i stuck haystacking for life?
You can see how i have to hay stack the crap out of round things. The eyes took me FORVER. Stroke-undo-Stroke-undo-
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As you can see im imitating Gabes methods. However with no idea what else he is doing. Just by watching him draw. Perhaps he has something special with his tablet i dont know about.
UPDATE: more practice... im having aliasing problems...
So what are his settings? he uses a 13 brush with high hardness is all i can see...
I also find it hard to draw so lightly... i might as well not be useing the pen pressure settings at all. To get nice circles I feel the need to jam my pen into my bamboo tablets skin!
Those are his settings. That's it. The smoothness of his curves is a light, confident touch and the only way to nail it is practice, as m3n & Ken said. Keep at it; learning to ink smoothly with a tablet is tough.
All that said, you might be able to play with your tablet's pressure settings (in Tablet Properties - softer & firmer) to get something more brush-like; if you're really jabbing the stylus down the settings may not be right for you.
I can only speak for myself, but I work quite a bit bigger than that, and I'm sure Gabe does, as well, since the strips are all destined for eventual print.
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And you're gonna need shitloads of that.
I also find it hard to draw so lightly... i might as well not be useing the pen pressure settings at all. To get nice circles I feel the need to jam my pen into my bamboo tablets skin!
All that said, you might be able to play with your tablet's pressure settings (in Tablet Properties - softer & firmer) to get something more brush-like; if you're really jabbing the stylus down the settings may not be right for you.