WACOM Tablet Testing
Simple story: A friend let me borrow his WACOM tablet earlier… I installed it around 4PM and I just realized that it’s 2 AM… What the Hell?!
I started out drawing some chickety scratch lines. Gotta’ start somewhere, I guess…. Then, I followed along with Todd McFarlane’s videos on youTube. I actually learned some stuff. Thank you Todd. Sometimes it’s the stuff that may seem insignificant that you pick that actually has the biggest impact.
Here’s some of the silly results….
I actually did this one before viewing the TM vids…. I was still warming up. The stuff I did watching the videos I didn’t keep, but I should’ve. I’m not kidding when I say I drew a mass of drawings… I drew all of the stuff from Todd’s vids including the female profile 4 times… The eye 3 times… I drew four versions of the Savage Dragon because he’s fairly simple. Two headshots. One color, one black and white. One rough, one not so rough. Two full body cartoon versions with really tiny Yosemite Sam-like legs…
I drew 3 or 4 zombie headshots (and a ninja)… This one’s rough, but I just liked it for some reason… Watching Todd’s videos had me drawing a lot of headshots (and they’re quick and easy). I also drew a rough version of the Alien from the films of the same name (and erased it)… Then I drew 3 or 4 dinosaurs… They started out as random monsters but I started making them look more and more just like regular dinosaurs of the standard variety (T-Rex, duck billed, brontosaurus on its hindquarters). Erased them all.
Drew several more headshots. Here’s one that’s a little cleaner. With this one, I drew a Lex Luthor type villain, then gave him a Anton Chigurth-like hairdo. I was just playing with brushes at that point. I was going back ad forth between sketchy and not so sketchy. I drew a pretty good Thor torso and accidentally erased it (SAVE OFTEN KIDS!!!). I suck, what can I tell you? Then I did a couple of Cyclops and Captain America (one full body/one headshot. Both ‘toon style).
Here’s the Cap that I kept. He’s kind of an angry Cap. I picture Cap as a happy guy most of the time, so maybe this isn’t Steve Rogers, but some imposter (I won’t make a Chris Evans joke… maybe the movie won’t suck)…
And then I got carried away. What started out as a rough of the lovely and talented Audrey Tautou, the fine French actress, quickly became an attempt to draw something that looked a lot more polished. Maybe it was the subject matter, but I think I worked on this one about 3 hours.
I ended up kind of making a half @$$ movie poster. My own signature was ruining it so I just typed it out in a font that would go better with this. I liked it, though. I also realized how a certain artist from Zuda did a few of his tricks. I had asked if the boudewijn Pelt effect helped him any and he just said “I do it a different way…” I thought it was kind of snotty even if it was an internet response. He wanted to keep it a ‘secret’. Big secret, he used a WACOM. Doesn’t seem so impressive anymore.
Okay, so I’m being a little snotty myself, now. It’s closing in on 3 AM and I’ve been staring at a computer for nearly 11 hours. I think it’s understandable. I drew somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 drawings with the WACOM today, ranging from the Wolverine level of scratchiness to the (not quite looking like) Audrey Tautou pic.
Thirty five.
I guess that may say something about what I think of the WACOM.
