The Urban Sketching Handbook Drawing with a Tablet

Easy Techniques for Mastering Digital Drawing on Location

Uma Kelkar

• Publisher: Quarry Books
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781631598074
• eBook ISBN: 9781631598081
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

In Drawing with a Tablet: Easy Techniques for Mastering Digital Drawing on Location, readers will learn step by step how to create amazing drawings while on the go.

In the sixth volume of the Urban Sketching Handbook series, popular artist and workshop instructor Uma Kelkar shows sketchers how to take their digital drawing to the next level. Whether you are new to sketching or wish to try the latest technology, this useful guide shares expert tips and techniques for drawing on a tablet.

With a focus on using the ProCreate tool, but with information that is relevant to other digital platforms, you will start with the basics, such as opening your file, choosing your resolution, determining your palette, and how to simplify your tools by creating a preferred set of brushes. The book also covers using layers and groups of layers, and shows you how to create a sketch from start to finish.

Whether you are drawing at home, en plein air, on the go, or even at night, learn how to enliven your digital drawings and enhance your skills.

KEY I

EQUIPMENT BASICS

If you have a new tablet and are keen to start drawing, don’t let this chapter stop you. Jump to the “Get Started with Digital Drawing” chapter right away! Come back to this chapter after you’ve played with the tablet for a few days.

Pressure-sensitive styli were game changers in tablet drawing. Mobile tablets and drawing apps have been available since 2010. And on every new release of a tablet, I visited the stores of the different manufacturers to check out the latest technology—only to be put off again and again by the slick surface and the unresponsive styli. That changed in April of 2017, when the Apple Pencil came out. I remember the moment the drawing responded to my pressure and my opinion flipped. Within minutes, I walked out of the store with my first tablet and stylus; and by the end of the first week, I was surprisingly comfortable with the slickness of my new tools.

DON LOW

Waiting for Her Ride

Procreate

With a tablet, night-time and other low-light conditions are now available for sketching. Please be mindful of your screen brightness when sharing the space with others.

Advent

Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Samsung offer tablets with various operating systems (e.g., iOS, Android, and Windows). There are several software applications made for drawing on these specific operating systems.

Most drawing applications run across operating systems, but a few major ones do not (at the time of this writing). No book will keep up with the advent of new software and devices. That’s okay. Our book aims to address common concerns and common stumbling blocks that will be relevant to anyone getting to know this technology.

Almost all apps have overcome the primary concerns we have when we talk about digital sketching: palm rejection and pressure insensitivity. Palm rejection is the phenomenon when you want the tablet to take input from your stylus or the fingers that you are using to draw with—and not from your resting palm. Pressure insensitivity is when, as in traditional media, if you press down hard on a drawing tool, the strokes you make are of wider width. Similarly, we expect digital apps to replicate the pressure variation with a comparable variable line-width.

Drawing apps have also overcome the lag between our act of drawing and the drawing actual...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• About This Series
• Introduction
• Keys
• Gallery
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright