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I also put the original under the cut cause I think it’s funny

So so sorry for the late reply I’ve been overseas for the last 3 weeks!!

I want to just say that I’ve been drawing digital for years now and I am by no means a master at it, butt I’ll try to at least give some good advice😁 (I’ll even put in a picture of what my art looked like in 2021 compared to now at the end)

Anyway, I use my 6 year old iPad Air with an Apple Pencil. As soon as I got this baby charged and working I downloaded Procreate for around $10AUD (honestly it’s because all the cool artists I looked up to used it). But now I’ve come to learn now that it’s great for beginners…

But I’m taking that in stride because it really IS easy to use, a bonus is it has no subscription and no ads (like SOME other drawing apps🙄)…

Unfortunately though, it only is available for Apple products, so if you don’t have that I guess I can also recommend MediBang Paint and Ibis Paint too but I’ll be honest with you: they just didn’t do it for me.

It can be awkward going from pencil and paper to digital so I feel like a great piece of advice I can give for an artist who’s strong suit is traditional art is this: draw it on paper first, take a photo and loosely trace and colour it on your tablet. (Man I still do this sometimes- the piece of art at the end is even loosely traced) This, I feel, is what helped me get a feel for the new medium.

But if Procreate is available, I also downloaded two brush packs that I constantly use to this day, they are; Awk Brush Pack and Rosier’s pack “Fresque de l'Ange Blanc" (but I’ve only been using the oil pastel😅)

Brush packs are easy to find on Pinterest but I’m sure you could also just search it up online.

Speaking of Pinterest… As far as what tools I used go I uh… don’t really use anything besides Pinterest… But I’m gonna be real with you, once I’m in a fandom I love I use that to motivate the CRAP out of me

I’d highly recommend also posting your artwork to tumblr, I’ve found that people on here are very inviting. It’s a great space to connect with other amazing artists! Or you could at least share it with friends. I’m a dopamine junkie so I love when people like my posts and give me compliments, it really keeps me going

So anyways, thanks so much for the ask, I hope this somewhat helped you, don’t be shy to send me another one

I’d love to see your art journey here on tumblr ✌️

Annnnnd here’s the improvement from 2021 to now… ugh so… ugly…

First off I just want to say sorry for not posting/ answering the asks that have been sent- thanks SOMUCH by the way😁 I’ve already started working on them!

I’ve been in China for most of the month and only got back today, I didn’t have enough mobile data to support a Tumblr post so I’ve been drawing like crazy ‘cause you KNOW the grind never stops✌️

So now I present an artwork I made digital from a sketch ‘cause I thought it’d be fun to see a side by side