Swiss Melissa – imbued with all the powers of hot cocoa and marshmallows. Started in Sketchbook on my Note3, then finished on computer because I ran outta layers..
One of the first things I painted in Clover. I don’t know what happened over the last week or so, but several paint apps in android have been updating their interfaces to be more slick. I tried sketchbook pro again, layer paint hd, and a couple more. Still, Clover beats them all in terms of painting feel and feature set. Clover’s UI is not the most attractive, but damn it paints a lot like SAI. One thing the others get wrong is the pressure curve - there is no access to adjust it! Also, non-configureable stylus button. I ADORE the fact that I can set the button to “undo” in Clover. End rant.
As a study I like to take some time to find a subject that lives rent free in my mind and draw them. This includes the late and great Marlon Brando. Really an icon of class and masculine confidence. Paintings done and drawn in sketchbook pro.
Man it’s been awhile since I posted on here I mostly post on my Instagram and recently I’ve been posting on my Twitter. I wanted to post this one here as well though as this was where I first posted the original drawing.
I’m constantly going back and finding inspiration in my old pics and tracking my progress through redraws and I’ve been super excited to redraw this pic. Its incredible seeing the difference in my art style and quality. The original pic was done when I was first dabbling with lineless art and using my old tablet and computer. It was honestly a wreck looking back all bad shading, questionable proportions and triangle hands. (Not to mention my old laptop had serious colour issues that made it impossible for the correct colours to transfer over)
Its so rewarding to see this picture revamped with more accurate colour, better and cleaner shading, fixed proportions and actual fingers.
this is my favorite art program. it’s *much* more intuitive than photoshop/gimp or corel paintshop, but it still has the full functionality of a digital art program (layers, brush stabilizer, etc.). it’s not overwhelming to start on like practically every other decent art program I’ve tried, you can just pick a brush and start drawing as if it were paper if you want. plus you can download extra brushes for free! and they publish free art tutorials pretty regularly
ANYONE looking for a free art program: worth looking into.
YALL I LOVE THIS PROGRAM, especially the ipad version!! and i’m psyched that i don’t have to pay $30 a year for it anymore!!!
September 20th, 2021: I still see a lot of folks reblogging this, and that’s awesome! But there’s been an important change re: SketchBook.
SketchBook is no longer part of Autodesk. They’ve split off from the company and are now their own entity, meaning they have to start charging for SketchBook again in order to make a go of it.
The good news, at least, is that being independent of Autodesk means they won’t be beholden to a subscription model. They can just sell the app outright. $20 once feels a lot better to me than $30 per year, at any rate.
![Basically, I have no regrets. [Requests are open!]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8020a8e33e828bc5f41f0e839510883/tumblr_od6ywrs9we1vcuat0o1_1280.png "Basically, I have no regrets. [Requests are open!]")
