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I haven’t posted anything for a week because I’ve been learning how to draw on my Huion. It’s going well, but I’ve got a few more days of work to do on the piece I’m doing there. I mean, at this point I spend an hour doing each piece of clothing. 1 hour for petticoat. 1 hour for skirt. 1 hour for shirt. 1 hour for gloves. 1 hour for legs. 1 hour for face and eyes. The results are worth it though. Very worth it. And the more I work with it the more I’m diving into the PhotoShop tools rabbit holes. I’m now using pen presets and building my own palettes, and that helps a lot.
I’m also keeping the layers down to 3 per object: inked lineart, color, shading and highlights. And grouping those in folders which really keeps the whole workspace and the image a lot cleaner and easier to work with.
In the meantime, I realized that working on my computer was not giving me the emotional and mental and physical benefits I get from drawing on paper. After a week of not drawing, I was starting to have some of the symptoms I’d been using drawing to deal with.
So I’m going to go back to drawing on paper every day.
I’ll keep working on the computer, because I really like the results I’m getting there, and it feels like a significantly better way to ink and color a piece. I mean, if it sounds like I’m spending forever with the inking and coloring, I am. I always have. Even when I was using pens, it was like this for me. But on the Huion I don’t have any of the drama or suspense or fear of completely ruining a piece with a bad stroke, or having to go at a piece with razor blades to get rid of a drip here and there.
But the Huion doesn’t give me the dopamine a simple pencil sketch does. Just a sketch like this gives me so much dopamine. Like, I’ve always said if dopamine came in a bottle I’d be buying it by the case. And here it is - dopamine in a pencil. All I have to do is spend an hour drawing each day and I get my fix.
Going to try to become more of an addict to drawing.

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