Can I learn to draw with a digital pad?

It is possible to learn to draw with a digital drawing tablet, and there is no difference between drawing with paper and achieving the same learning effect.

Digital drawing boards are usually made up of a board and a pressure-sensitive brush, just like a painter's drawing board and brush, except that this is a digital product that needs to be connected to a computer and used in conjunction with software.

Digital drawing board can experience the feeling of holding a brush and drawing on paper, it can simulate a variety of painters' brushes, such as simulating the most common brush, when the force is heavy when the brush can draw a very thick line, when the force is very light, and can draw a very thin and very light line.

It can also simulate an airbrush, which sprays different amounts of ink and ranges of ink at different levels of force, and also sprays fan shapes and other effects depending on the angle at which the brush is tilted, etc.

In addition to the traditional brush effects, it can also be used to simulate a variety of other brush effects. In addition to simulating the traditional effects of various brushes, it can also take advantage of the computer to make effects that cannot be realized using traditional tools.

Expanded information

Digital board drawing need to pay attention to the terminology:

1, the active area

Index of the drawing area of the board, also known as the work area, and the digital board of the physical dimensions of the board is different. Often referred to as 4 * 5, 6 * 8, etc. refers to the size of the active area is 4 inches * 5 inches, 6 inches * 8 inches.

2, aspect ratio

Digital board or display screen of the vertical size and horizontal size of the ratio. The ratio of the size of the digital board generally corresponds to the display screen to 4:3 for the mainstream ratio. Corresponding to the widescreen ratio of the board for 16:9 or 16:10, the size of 11 * 7, or 11 * 6; 9 * 6; 6 * 4 and so on.

3, click strength

In order to stimulate the click and must be applied to the pen's tip of the force size.

4, hard shortcuts

There are physical buttons on the digital board board, usually zoom in and out of the brush, change layers, zoom in and out of the canvas, grab the canvas, pick up the color, etc., can be personalized in the digital board driver.

5, touch function

In the active area of the board (the board's painting part) in the board through gestures to control the mouse, or rotate to zoom in and out of the canvas, etc., can be turned off, the temporary only wacom digital board supports this feature.

6, refill

Through the pen can be replaced by the serious wear and tear of the refill, different brands of nibs can not be mixed, wacom's refill there are different choices, such as friction refill, felt refill, elastic refill to adapt to the use of different user needs.

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