Time lapse drawing Toxic Zombie

 Here is a time lapse of me drawing on my new tablet. I did it on the train. It's not very edited so there are some gaps. I'm not used to editing these weird tablet resolutions and all my kit is set up for standard TV and film resolution. Well it's 720 by 1200 so I would probably be fine if it was the other way round. I tried using the editor in youtube studio but it is pretty awful.

 It's the first time for a long time I put some effort into 2d and recorded the results. I do occasionally work on paper with my daughter when she is drawing. I have never done a time lapse like this before I know a lot of drawing apps have it built in but it's my first time trying it. Interesting to see it. I usually work very roughly and I don't mid a sketchy rough finish. I think it gives more character plus overly finishing a drawing or painting kills the dynamism I've always thought. Digital art is different to traditional art as you can go in and edit as many times as you want where as with traditional paper and art materials there comes a point where you destroy the paper if you over work too much.

I usually use on old Wacom where I draw on the tablet and see what I'm doing on the screen. This is because when I shifted over to tablet the cost of a set up where you are drawing on a screen was extremely high. I was working in games at the time and even the concept artist who was doing nothing but drawing was working on a standard pen tablet. Grunt artists like me used to hand paint our textures, back then a Wacom was standard issue. There was always a bit of a faff with pens going missing.

I don't often get it out and my Wacom is very old and it broke! The pen kind of sprang apart and springs and pieces went everywhere. At first I couldn't put it back together and I started looking at alternatives and that's what led me to looking at a new tablet. I have since fixed my Wacom pen it seems a little unhappy and does not fully fit back together as it used to but still works.

I still splashed out on a new tablet which is very portable and like a doodle pad. I used to draw all the time as a kid when I was bored. In the back of lessons on the cover of my exercise books or in the back pages. I've worked with other animators who have apple tablets that they doodle on. I hate apple so I got an Android one. It feels odd to have a pen back in the way of what I'm drawing I'm so used to the line magically appearing while I scratch away on my Wacom.