I HAVE A TABLET AND ZBRUSH!

I am just so happy right now!

I now have a tablet! The Wacom Intros Medium with the 3D bundle!

That's a very big deal for me. My fellow GameDev Knights members told me that I would need  a tablet so I could do 2d art and sculpting. As a Game Design major, and someone who's going to the Art track at FIEA eventually, these were a must. 

They also said that the sooner I can learn Zbrush, the better. I couldn't pay for the $150 license, and unfortunately to my knowledge I couldn't get a student license. When I was told to get a tablet, I decided on the Wacom Intuos 3D. As luck would have it, what does the 3D bundle include?

Oh yeah! Killing two birds with one stone! Also Zbrush has ZClassroom for teaching the software. It'll be time soon to start dabbling into that.

Now here's a practice drawing with the tablet: The Master Sword. It's all free-hand, no tracing. I don't ever trace. I really want to find out how to do what is done in pointillism where there are 2-3 colors for one area...you know to add vibrance. I swear that there is a way to add vibrant colors besides pointillism however. I know that I've seen that in Salvador Dali's paintings...



But yeah, very happy and I can't wait to get better! Now I can offer digital art commissions!

For the longest time I had a stigma against digital art because the people that go out of their way to learn traditional techniques make phenomenal work...

The more I think about it, the more I realize that you still need skill to make genuinely good art. It's never about your tools, but your skills!