Here's another advantage to drawing digitally, even for on-location sketching with a laptop. In trying to quickly draw this fidgety little girl at a coffee cafe—who kept looking back and forth from the picture book that her mother was reading to her, back to her mother for questions..constantly flipping her profile 180°—working digitally, I just kept flipping this sketch in sync with the whims of this very young subject. Try doing this with pen and paper..
(this is a close-up..I planned to include mom, book and cafe environment but they got up and left..both the frustration and charm of on-location sketching..)
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Would you describe the equipment you use to sketch digitally on location? Or if covered in a previous post point me there? I do digital sketching and have used it for live caricaturing.
ReplyDeleteSure, nothing fancy -in this case, just a 12" Powerbook with Macally Icecad graphic tablet (don't think this is made anymore? Wacom would be better). Manga Studio EX ver. 4 is the app. The new iPad and Axiotron Modbook seem like even better alternatives though.
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