Hi there!

I bought wacom drawing tablet one week ago from Malaysia.

And I wanna improve my drawing. Where should I start? Which program should I use?

I know photoshop & illustrator but I wanna draw comics.

Thank for help.

Hi mate,

 

I bought a Wacom tablet a couple of years ago and think it's great and it'll definitely improve your drawing skills.

 

Program-wise it depends on your final output. You say you want to draw comics, but it that to actually print out and distribute or to keep online in digital format?

 

Personally I always opt for Photoshop as I think the tools are better for creating more realistic drawings, whereas Illustrator is a vector program and so drawings can look a bit too digital.

 

A good place to start is to draw something on paper and scan it into Photoshop and trace it on a new layer in PS. It's also good to balance out the colour levels of the original drawing and get a more definite black if you wanted to then import it into Illustrator and use the Live Trace tool.

 

Have fun with it though!

Hi mate,

 

I bought a Wacom tablet a couple of years ago and think it's great and it'll definitely improve your drawing skills.

 

Program-wise it depends on your final output. You say you want to draw comics, but it that to actually print out and distribute or to keep online in digital format?

 

Personally I always opt for Photoshop as I think the tools are better for creating more realistic drawings, whereas Illustrator is a vector program and so drawings can look a bit too digital.

 

A good place to start is to draw something on paper and scan it into Photoshop and trace it on a new layer in PS. It's also good to balance out the colour levels of the original drawing and get a more definite black if you wanted to then import it into Illustrator and use the Live Trace tool.

 

Have fun with it though!

 

Can I find you on facebook?

Yeah for sure, https://www.facebook.com/Pixels2Life?ref=hl

 

The dragon you'll see in my header image was drawn using the tablet!