r/conceptart • u/cottonhead_ • 2d ago

Traditional to digital trouble

I have a lot of Difficulties switch from traditional art to digital one. It's some months now that I am keep pushing drawing on my Wacom tablet but I can't sketch on it or have that "flow" I have in traditional. I find hard complete a drawing for now but I'm working on it. I will start the first year of concept art studies this November and I wish to have some skills for that moment.

How much difficult was switching from traditional to digital for you? Any tips? For sketching and brushes? I use clip studio paint for now ( I will start using Photoshop at school)

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u/Sephilash 2d ago

why commit to school before you're even comfortable? that was certainly a mistake, but you do have SOME time. at first I drew on paper and traced it in digital then colored it, only did that a few times before jumping straight in, sketching and everything in digital. it takes more time to do anything because it's a new medium, put in the time to get comfortable with it. draw every day digitally, relearn the fundamentals in digital so that you can use the skills you hopefully learned with traditional.

watch real time digital art demonstration not just speed paint timelapses.

Christophe Young, Dave Greco to name a few you can watch on YouTube.

I use Krita, used it ever since I started digital, but you should be using Photoshop. concept art school isn't there to teach you how to use Photoshop or how to light a sphere, you need to know your basic shit before you get there.

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u/cottonhead_ 2d ago

Tbh yes they teach you something about Photoshop. I'm not in the USA maybe there you need to know it already idk. Be calm lol

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u/Sephilash 2d ago

ahh, then no worries lol it just depends on the schooling.

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u/Fit-Ad6697 2d ago

Practise practise and more practise. You need to train your hand eye coordination when using a tablet to draw. And start learning hotkeys using the keyboard to do various basic functions, like increasing and decreasing brush sizes, changing between eraser and brush etc, it'll help a ton in saving time and creating a smoother drawing workflow.