Every article on the site, newest first. Hardware, apps, technique and the desk around it.
A step-by-step way to map pen buttons, express keys and dials to undo, brush size, color picking and rotation, with per-app profiles and keyboard backups.
Open the piece →Small daily targets, short warm-ups, a prompt list and a simple tracker: the mistakes I made keeping a sketch habit, and what to do after missing a few days.
Open the piece →Four books on light, color, composition and seeing that stay useful long after your painting app changes, and how to put each one to work at a tablet.
Open the piece →A ten-point desk check for digital artists: desk and chair height, tablet angle, mapping, gloves, light and breaks, with a worked desk height example.
Open the piece →How to turn a print size into pixels before you paint: the one formula, worked examples for 8 x 10 and A4, bleed, aspect ratios and what 300 DPI really means.
Open the piece →What calibration does for digital art, how a colorimeter works, which targets to pick for screen or print, and the limits no profile can fix.
Open the piece →Multiply, screen, overlay, color, clipping masks and alpha lock explained for painters, with a short layer workflow that keeps a painting tidy and editable.
Open the piece →What a pressure curve does, where the driver and app versions live, how to tune one with a simple stroke test, and the mistakes that make a good pen feel bad.
Open the piece →Matte films make a tablet feel more like paper, but they wear nibs, soften the picture and fight with glare. Here is the full trade, and how to fit one.
Open the piece →A step-by-step inking routine for digital drawing: sketch opacity, stabilizers, line weight, flipping the canvas, cleanup and closing gaps for fills.
Open the piece →Krita is free, deep and a little overwhelming on day one. A seven-day plan for the workspace, brushes, pop-up palette, layers, saving and tablet setup.
Open the piece →StreamLine, taper, pressure, shape and grain: the handful of Procreate brush settings worth learning first, and how to edit a brush without breaking it.
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