Hi guys welcome to my studio in today's tutorial we're going to talk about using
a drawing tablet so if you're an artist who does a lot of drawing illustration
painting and you're wondering about how to transition into a digital medium and
get your art into the digital world this is the video for you
I know if my name is Shayda Campbell and on this channel I do art tutorials so if
you're into that consider subscribing now for today's tutorial we're going to
get into using a wireless drawing tablet and the tablet that I'm using is the
Huion Inspiroy G10T wireless tablet they did send it to me so I'm gonna do a
little bit of a review of the tablet and then we're gonna jump into a tutorial
and I'm just gonna try to give you some of my tips and tricks and make this
process a little more comfortable make the idea of using a drawing tablet theme
a little more approachable whether you're novice or a professional artist
so let's take a little look-see at the Huion G10T you can see that it has a
metal back so it's quite a sturdy durable piece of equipment and it's also
very very thin and I've found it to be quite portable the surface of the tablet
is very very smooth to the touch but then when you put the pen on it there's
a nice traction there and it really does it definitely mimics the feel of pen on
paper it doesn't feel like the pen is slick and sliding across the tablet not
at all and the tablet also has a trackpad so that while you're using it
you can just use this to do all the functionality on your computer and
there's a couple buttons at the top there and those I have them programmed
to zoom in and out but you can program them to do whatever you want and then
let's talk a little about the pen this pen has over 8,000 pressure points so
it's a really good very sensitive stylus and it comes in this cool case and
there's all these extra nibs so that's a nice feature of this tablet as well and
you'll see what I mean about the sensitivity when we get into this and I
think a concern when you're starting an digital drawing is that you're gonna be
not really aware of where you're at and where you're working on the page and all
you have to do is hover the stylus or the pen above the drawing tablet and it
will recognize and show you where you are on the page and then you just put
your pen down and begin to draw it's really intuitive
so that's the tablet that I'm using but no matter which tablet you've got let's
talk a little about how you can use it so I'm going into Photoshop I'm creating
a new project I'm making mine the size of a YouTube thumbnail because that's
what I'm designing and I'll just call it tablet thumb so I'm gonna create that
new project and then the very first thing I want to do is create a few
layers and this is kind of like having a bunch of tracing paper and you guys know
how much I love tracing paper cuz you can extract what you like and get rid of
what you don't so I'm gonna call one layer sketch and one layer good drawing
so I've sort of got a rough copy and a good copy and I can make a whole bunch
of layers but that's where I'm gonna start and then the next thing we're
gonna do is figure out our brush so I'm coming over here to the brush tool or
you can press B and then I'm going to do a right click or a double finger click
to bring up my brush menu here and you can see I can change the size of the nib
so I usually go quite small I like a detail like I want a nice sharp pencil
you know and then you can choose the type of nib and I usually go with a hard
edge round and I just feel like that's like a pencil if I want to do a contour
drawing or it's sort of like my pigma micron it's just a simple black nib okay
and then the next thing we want to do is go up here and this is sort of your to
toggle to pressure sensitivity on and off so when you have this on then the
pen is going to pick up the way you move it so if you press hard it's going to be
a thicker line if you have a nice light pressure it's gonna be a thin line okay
that's a little too small maybe for you guys to see what I'm talking about so
let me change the size of the nib really quickly here so we'll move this up and
now you can see as I apply a light pressure and then a firm pressure you
can see such a difference in the line and it's amazing what that stylist can
pick up so it's pretty cool and you can see here that the pen is really reacting
the way a normal pen or a normal pencil would I'm gonna write my name I I
haven't got this down I'm not perfect at this yet but
nor will I ever be but you can see how you can get a nice fresh script and
you're gonna do you know heavier pressure on the downstroke and that nice
light thin delicate upstroke so the pen those pressure points that stylus it
really picks up the way you move it so it really has a quite a natural feel and
I was very pleasantly surprised I was not I wouldn't say I was eager to start
using a drawing tablet but I was interested I was curious and I have been
very pleasantly surprised so now we're gonna try to do a full scale drawing and
we're gonna use those layers you're gonna go to your layer called sketch
that's your sketchy layer and you're gonna turn the opacity down to about 50%
and I think one of the most challenging things about drawing in the digital
space is just sort of getting a feel for the page without that 8 by 11 sketchbook
in front of you it's hard to know how big things are and where to place things
so that's why I do the sketch layer so I've got this very light oh you know
barely there translucent layer and I'm just gonna draw sort of say I'm drawing
this garden scene I just want to lay out where things are gonna be so okay I'm
gonna put a flower and it's about a third of the page it goes about up about
a third of the page and it sits here and then I'm doing a stem of eucalyptus here
and I just do a really rough sketch so I think you guys can see where this is
going this is my sketchy layer and doing this initial sketch layer has really
helped me to move into the digital art world
and also you can zoom in so anytime you want to do something really detailed
just zoom in and that the space of the tablet will remain the same but you're
drawing in a much smaller smaller area of the page
and I'm just gonna continue forward here doing my sketch you can see how I just
put too much pressure there so that's how much of a difference you can achieve
when you press hard or press lightly so it's pretty cool so you can see how the
drawing of my little garden here is coming together and then once I'm happy
with the way that this looks I'll go up here I'll click on the layer called good
drawing or you can label these whatever you want I'm gonna change the size of my
nib I'm gonna make sure the opacity is a hundred percent and then I'll probably
zoom in again a little bit because I know I'm definitely wanting to add
detail now and now that I know I've got everything laid out properly and I'm you
know I've got my smaller nib and I'm gonna start working on my good copy of
course you always have access to an eraser but I think this is a question
for illustrators and hand letterers like how do i sketch how do i really move
into the digital space i can't get things on the first try i can't just
draw perfectly and for me using the layers has been sort of the answer to
that question and of course you still have your eraser as i said and here you
can see me going around and using the initial sketch as my guide but now i'm
zoomed in and i'm able to add much more detail and give this flower sort of the
time and care that it deserves so before i just drew the shape of a leaf well now
I'm drawing all the teeth and the veining and all the detail that I want
that leaf to have and you can see me going in here and adding a second leaf
and I don't use the sketch layer as an exact exact drawing it's just the guide
to help me make sure I can really do do the drawing that I want to do and you
can see on the veining of the leaves this is a great chance to or a great
example of how the pressure points on that pen really work
I go down toward the center of the leaf I'm adding more pressure and it gives me
this beautiful detail on the painting and I'm just going to fill in and just
give a little bit of shading here while I'm still using the black nib and that's
my basic contour drawing done so you can see how I've used the sketch layer now
I'm gonna go in and grab my eraser so efore eraser or you can get it in the
left-hand menu there and then I'm gonna zoom in even more and I'm just gonna fix
up any little areas where I might have missed but you'll be surprised when
you're using the tablet it quickly becomes very very intuitive and it's
funny your hand knows you know and even when you're doing one petal and then
another you're thinking I'm not gonna know where to stop my pen without having
a drawing right in front of me but your body quickly adapts and you're looking
on the screen and your hand is on the the tablet and it just works so you can
erase there and now what I'm gonna do is add a little bit of color so I've added
another layer just called color and I'm putting it underneath the good drawing
layer so the color will sort of lay beneath the black contourr drawing
and I'm gonna play around with the size and shape and type of nib I want to sort
of an angled nib as if it were a chisel tip marker if that makes sense and I'm
gonna grab a nice pink color a nice light pink and then I'm gonna make sure
that the opacity is down because I want this very translucent sort of watercolor
shade or watercolor like look to my color and so I've got an angled sort of
chisel tip marker a very translucent watercolor II type of color and then I'm
just adding that beneath the drawing of the flower so what I want you guys to
really see here is that I can achieve a drawing that is so in my style
and it didn't take me long to kind of get the hang of that so when I started
drawing in the digital space I was like well how am I gonna retain my own style
and I quickly picked up tips or I quickly picked up a few tricks for how
to achieve that and I think you will too you know I'm showing you how I do my
thing but you're gonna figure out a way to do your own style for me it was all
about you know I'm just adding a bit of color that's very watery and translucent
I'm not filling things in all the way I think that's something I always talk
about on the channel I don't want to color in the lines I want a color
slightly off of those lines I want there to be white space I just think that
gives a nice sophisticated look and I'm doing that here just those leaves don't
have to be colored in just so and then by using a brush color that's not a
hundred percent opaque I'm able to layer the color and that's how I get that nice
shading so I don't have to constantly go back in and pick a new color oh I need a
darker green no I'm just gonna layer that same green and then I can of course
use a darker green or whatever but you have a lot of options just by using the
opacity meter just by changing the angle of your brush so that your you know your
chisel tip is going in one direction and then another and there's a lot to play
around with there's a lot to get used to and try out but I think you'll be
drawing in your own style before you know it this is very intuitive you can
pick this up and I hope by watching today's video that you feel that this is
a little more approachable well thank you guys so much for watching today I
hope you enjoyed learning about the drawing tablet and please comment below
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