WACOM tablet

week 9
"Pears sketched"

This week we learned how digital art is actually done! From fan art to sketches on a digital screen for fun. We used a device  called the Tablet. Branded mainly Wacom.

This is a wacom tablet, it acts like a sketch book but the only difference is whatever you sketch on the tiny box in grey center here, actually shows up on your computer screen! like magic.

A system like this takes time in getting a hang of, some people may take a couple weeks to months and some, several years. 6 years for my lecturer (;

Moving on! we started off by getting a pear image. 

We were given a couple of examples on types of sketching

first being 'hatching' and second, 'stippling'.

we started off by lowering the opacity of the image and on a new layer, we sketched the outline.

i used a hard brush with less flow to give a pressure difference.

First the outline and then the shading.

 This is what it looks like after hiding the image of the pear we traced. I would say not bad for a second time user of a wacom tablet but you do have advantage for people who can sketch at first.

I then added a highlighted maroon
for shading options. The possibilities are endless for the way you sketch out. as this was done in photoshop you can use patterns and various brush types to an extent where you can even make you own brush modes.

Using the stylus of the tablet and depending on the pressure you amount, i made polka dotted like paints as seen below. I personally adore the abstract part of design therefor i added these lighter dots on the side of the pear also playing around with negative and positive space.

FIN (: