The world of illustration is beautiful and varied as well as the materials to realize the illustrations themselves! Nowadays, you can find a huge number of art materials on the market to realize your ideas, or you can simply choose a graphic tablet, the drawing on which will imitate all traditional materials.
Convenience in working with the customer
How to choose an iPad for drawingIf we talk about convenience, then in this category the tablet is the winner! To work with it, you do not have to prepare a separate workplace, you can work with it anywhere!
You do not need to think where to put paper, markers, watercolor paints and brushes, because all this is replaced by just one device – a graphics tablet or iPad. Whereas for working with manual techniques the case is different!
When working with a customer, there is often a need to make changes: change the color, shape, add or remove some details, increase or decrease the size of objects in the illustration, radically change the background.
From personal experience, illustrators say that every time to redo an illustration with a large number of adjustments – very energy-consuming and takes a lot of time.
Even though the edits are paid additionally, such work is not very satisfying.
Then the tablet comes to the rescue, which gives the opportunity to draw in layers. It is thanks to the ability to break the illustration into layers, you facilitate your work.
If the customer wants to make certain adjustments, you simply fix some one or two layers, rather than redrawing the entire illustration over again.
Learning speed
If we talk about the speed of learning, at the start it will be higher in digital illustration. Because here we are dealing with artificial art materials and we can always click on the undo button or simply delete a section or layer we don’t like.
Color fills are much easier to perform, at any moment the shape or object can be distorted or changed shape, color and many other useful options.
Whereas working with manual techniques, you are dealing with a “live material” that must be controlled, such as watercolor or marker.If you spoil the fill color, you will have to draw everything again, there is no “undo” button.
But, drawing by hand on paper, you develop your eye and “put” your hand, learn the correct composition, which affects the overall perception of the illustration. You work out a beautiful line and stroke.
You learn to work with live materials and get a better understanding of mixing colors and combining shades, you begin to control the whole process of drawing as a whole.