You can pan, zoom, and rotate the canvas with two fingers, making for a very natural workflow. Other tools show up as floating panels, which are easy to drag and resize using large, comfortable grippers, and automatically wink out of existence as you paint near them. Radial toolbars at the bottom two corners of the screen let me quickly switch tools and adjust colors without fiddling with menus. I tested it with a simple stylus and one of the new breed of touchscreen-enabled laptops, the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13. Paint over an area again, and colors will blend, leaving visible brush strokes.ĪrtRage’s interface is simple to pick up, with most functions in easy reach. Paper and brush both have textures load your brush with paint and draw it across the canvas with one long stroke, and it will gradually fade out. Much like Corel Painter Lite and its older sibling, Corel Painter, ArtRage simulates natural media. Overall, Clip Studio just feels more professional to me…the other two seem stripped down by comparison.The Symmetry feature makes for interesting paintings that sometimes look like koalas. Lagginess was a deal breaker for me on both ArtRage and Sketchbook - I did testing with all three on a 3300 x 4200 pixel canvas size (11″ x 14″ at 300 dpi resolution). Most importantly, Clip Studio can keep up with rapid sketching at high resolution without lagging. ![]() I also downloaded and tested ArtRage 5 and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, but ultimately chose Clip Studio Paint for its depth of features…such as finer control of taper on both ends of strokes, and amazing vector capabilities, without it looking like vector work: no scanning or photography required lossless full resolution, ready to print ![]() can rotate the drawing this way and that (for easier cross-hatching, for example) can handle high resolution drawing/painting for gallery quality prints up to 17 x 22 (biggest we can print ourselves) more relaxing since everything I did was an “experiment” which wouldn’t mess up what I’d done so far if I decided I didn’t like it ability to reposition/resize without erasing then re-drawing (one of the things that was off-putting when I used to paint portraits if a perfectly good eye was a smidge out of place, there was no choice but to paint it out and re-do it!) can work large without smudging from hand on paper darken/lighten individual strokes, a section, or entire drawing easily (using vector layers) ability to place various parts on different layers natural/realistic look and feel of the various pencil tools It was fun! I feel a little sad that I enjoyed it more than conventional pencil on paper, but I’m also excited by the fresh possibilities of going digital. I didn’t set out with the intention of compositing them together…or any intention, really, I was just trying to figure out how to use new software ( Clip Studio Paint, aka Manga Studio, Mac desktop version, using Intuous4 PTK-440 Wacom tablet), settle on what resolution to use, try out the various pencil tools, and so on. I found it more relaxing - more right brain less left brain - to do it that way. It’s frankensteined together from three separate sketches: one for each eye, and one for nose/mouth: (Would you have known it was drawn using a stylus instead of on paper if I hadn’t said anything?) ![]() This sketch is a step along that path, a step that may represent a fork in the path actually, toward digital media rather than pencil on paper: I’ve missed some days, but am definitely drawing a lot more, and enjoying the process.
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