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Stylus and app for drawing on a Samsung Tablet
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Oh dear - nuffing!
Wish I could help - Rob Kirk could, if he happens to see this; and maybe you could contact him via his post on the watercolour thread. And perhaps if you were to go to the gallery and find the artists there who use a tablet - Dennis Roberts, Skylar Brown for example, who don't necessarily visit the forum or don't do so often - they would help.
Give it a go - unfortunately, I don't know one end of these things from the other; maybe one day - if someone buys me one for Christmas or my next (dreaded) birthday. If you find anything helpful, post it here - there must be people who are also interested, but maybe just haven't given it a go yet.
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I'm pleased you are thinking of using a tablet to draw and paint. Adele. The Samsung tablets use the android operating system and there is less graphics software available for that system. It so happens that I've just acquired a Samsung Galaxy Tab3 tablet from my wife who acquired it as a free when she upgraded her mobile phone.
I'm assuming you want an app for serious sketching or painting. The only app I can recommend is Autodesk Pro. I used it on my Apple iPad for a year or two until Procreate became available. I think it is available as a free download for the Samsung Galaxy at the moment. I can recommend it - I still use the iPad version occasionally. I've not yet tried to download it onto the Samsung tab
As for styli the best choice for a rubber tipped stylus is the Wacom Bamboo. Models are now available with a ball tipped pen at one end and rubber tip at the other. Amazon displays the full range. As you progress you may like to try a stylus with a firm 'nib' which makes smoother drawing possible. . I use the Adonit Jot Dash which behaves like a real pencil. But it come at a price and has to be recharged from time to time.
There are lots of demonstrations on You Tube which will help get you started. Here's a link for starters - hope it works!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ell2nR8f9Wo
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I used to do some digital work using Photoshop Elements...but I'd scan pencil drawings for the subject matter. I bought a Bamboo stylus hoping to use that to draw directly onto my computer. They came with different capabilities and prices...I could only afford the basic model. A waste of money. I've seen super styluses (styli??) where you effectively draw on a supplied screen and the drawing marks appear instantly on your computer. I'd love one of those...but we're talking big bucks, and I can't justify that for a hobby...given that I feel nothing beats a pen or brush on paper.
You need an expert, that's not me, I'll be watching this post with interest.
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Nice video Aya.
I used to do art on the Amiga Deluxe Paint IV back in the day when you drew with a mouse and basically did a pixel at a time ^^ then when technology changed significanly I had a go at modelling with Maya (the program they made the Gollum on) but was limited to geometric shapes as I had no touch sensitive pen to mould, push/pull and sculpt more organic shapes... still amazing what can be done with ray-tracing etc (3 hours per frame render time back then)
It does seem like computer art has come into its own again thanks to tablets etc but nothing seems as user friendly as it once did, those early softwares were very simple to use, you would draw something, add a frame and make changes and before you knew it you had an animation. Then programs like Maya have teams on them, each specialising in a different area since the program is too big for any one person to know all of it (modelling, textures, dynamics engines, rendering, language coding etc)
I look forwards to seeing what you can create should you find a stylus that suits you, I think its hard to beat a pencil and paper though sometimes old school simplicity has a charm.
It does seem like computer art has come into its own again thanks to tablets etc but nothing seems as user friendly as it once did, those early softwares were very simple to use, you would draw something, add a frame and make changes and before you knew it you had an animation. Then programs like Maya have teams on them, each specialising in a different area since the program is too big for any one person to know all of it (modelling, textures, dynamics engines, rendering, language coding etc)
I look forwards to seeing what you can create should you find a stylus that suits you, I think its hard to beat a pencil and paper though sometimes old school simplicity has a charm.
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Well I had a good look at a fair few apps and found this one in the end:
http://tayasui.com/sketches/
It is basically free, even the add ons only cost me £4.99 so I'm happy.
It is dead simple and fully intuitive to use, it has layers and a variety of brushes and pens but not masses. I don't think it's a replacement for paper but as a way of creating whilst sat in an airport or whatever it works well. Its also a good teaching aid...I can try things and see what works. I know that anything more complex would be lost on me, I'd get bored.
That said, today I have been playing with real inks on real wet paper.
David
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I think what's done in Digital Art is glorious...wonderful. I loved Aya's video clip, it has the touch of magic about it. Oddly enough I saw a wacom intuos in John Lewis...I think it was the Pro version...it was over £300. It's perhaps unreasonable to expect much from devices costing £30. I spent that a few years back on a wacom bamboo, it was useless. (Syd's observation that it's like painting with your elbow is very apt). I was better off drawing with the mouse, and believe me, I draw very badly with a mouse.
My views are probably outdated, my way of working (Scanned drawings etc) is in the digital stone age. Astonishing advances are being made.
I'd love to see more digital art in the gallery. So to anyone giving it a go...good on you.
Lew.
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Rob K and I had our differences, though nowhere near as many as he and others did: but he would have rejoiced in this thread, and could have contributed usefully to it - what a pity it is that some of us just can't get on with others, however hard we try.
I still know next to nothing about this subject, though have played with Paint - which is primitive beyond words compared with these other, newer programmes. But while age is no barrier - Rob is in his 80s - available cash still, plainly, is. So it will remain a closed book to me - nor do I think it's the future; it's one of several possible futures - and it shouldn't be feared, if anyone does, as a threat to traditional media.
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Thanks for that Keora. I shall download the updated Paint for certain. I've always thought Adobe Photoshop Elements to be marvelous value (years back I bought version 5 from Amazon - brand new, still in it's shrink wrapped cover...at the time they were selling version 11 for £80, I got version 5 for £20 - cheap because it was outdated, but still wonderful). The link you provided compares it favourably with photoshop elements, and if it's free you can't go wrong. To anyone wanting to dip their toes into digital art, it makes an excellent starting point.
These programs are primarily for editing photographs, but they come with drawing/painting tools.
Lew.
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