Tag: Learn digital drawing

Digital drawing on your phone/tablet | An in-depth look

There are many foundational questions for the aspiring artist who wants to improve their artistic skills in the area of drawing and painting. Questions such as these are core to painting and drawing: How do you learn tones in drawings and paintings How to get better faster in drawing strokes How to learn portrait paintings Read More

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How to pick a drawing app for your phone/tablet

Today, we have so many drawing apps available for our phone from the big play stores like Google and Apple. It can be quite daunting to pick up the right one. I will provide some top tips on picking the right drawing app this is good for you. However, you need to keep in mind Read More

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An unfortunate gap between traditional and digital mediums for drawing & painting.

The words ‘digital drawing’ has many different meanings to different people and the domain of digital drawing has remained largely aloof to most traditional artists. I will try to bring more clarity on this subject so as a traditional artist, you can gauge a better understanding of how this domain has evolved through history. In Read More

A drawing of Will Smith made on the Samsung S6 Lite but you can do on other tablets

This is an update on my previous blog post of a drawing of Will Smith that I made using the Paintology app on the Samsung S6 Lite tablet. However, anyone can do this on other Android tablets including the Amazon fire tablets. The reason why this drawing is interesting to beginner artists is because of Read More

Digital Drawing vs Traditional Drawing

Digital drawing has been taking a foothold recently due to the popularity of Android tablets and the iPad. As a result some good drawing apps have become available for both platforms including Paintology, Sketch and Ibis for the Android and the popular Procreate for the iPad. For many beginners to digital drawing, the Android platform Read More

Making the transition from traditional pencil drawing to digital drawing

I often get asked this question by many folks including the readers from Quora. I will try to add some of my thoughts and experience to this topic so you can better decide. Coming from a traditional approach to drawing ie. pencils, pastels, acrylics etc. I often find myself trying to divulge into other mediums. Read More