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I'm a big fan of Sky Arts' 'Portrait Artist of the Year' and a fair few of the contestants over the years have used an electronic tablet to help them. Often they clip them to their easels too.
Could anyone recommend to me a low-priced tablet, 10 inch or more screen that is lightweight and reliable please? It will be used for mural painting rather than life portraits, but the principle might well be the same. I would download an app, such as Grid Art, to create a grid over the specific subject photo already downloaded. I would then use the 'grid method' to transpose onto the wall 'canvas'.
There are millions available out there, including refurbed ones and 2nd hand ones.
Thanks again, I promise I will contribute to this place rather than just glean information for my own selfish needs haha!
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I agree with Dixie, find your self an iPad!
I’m also a fan of PAOTY but it annoys me when people solely use their iPad/phone to paint from and virtually ignore the sitter, seems quite insulting to me. Often the best work on PAOTY is by the artists who actually communicate with the sitter and make a connection. I don’t object to the iPad being used as an aid, but not to take over completely. You might as well take a photo and go home to paint.
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You Want a Wacom Intuos Drawing Tablet and Stylus Pen.. Best Drawing Tablet Money Can Buy.. Used by most Serious Digital Artist Like Myself.. I have been using the same one Over 12 Years Now.. still going strong.. You can get a Small One. 10 inch or better drawing space under 100 dollars U.S. on Amazon.. They are great.. Watch reviews of them on Youtube... Check out my gallery.. All digital art accomplished with A Wacom Tablet...
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I agree with Dixie, find your self an iPad! I’m also a fan of PAOTY but it annoys me when people solely use their iPad/phone to paint from and virtually ignore the sitter, seems quite insulting to me. Often the best work on PAOTY is by the artists who actually communicate with the sitter and make a connection. I don’t object to the iPad being used as an aid, but not to take over completely. You might as well take a photo and go home to paint.Yes I agree with you totally! For murals, I much prefer the grid method even though the best results are always going to be via projected images which feel like cheating in a way to me. But then again, projecting is nothing new, I might well be wrong but I believe I read that Da Vinci and Rembrandt somehow worked with projected images.
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by James Robert Endeacott
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You Want a Wacom Intuos Drawing Tablet and Stylus Pen.. Best Drawing Tablet Money Can Buy.. Used by most Serious Digital Artist Like Myself.. I have been using the same one Over 12 Years Now.. still going strong.. You can get a Small One. 10 inch or better drawing space under 100 dollars U.S. on Amazon.. They are great.. Watch reviews of them on Youtube... Check out my gallery.. All digital art accomplished with A Wacom Tablet...I am not looking for a drawing tablet/pen, thanks anyway, I'm looking for a tablet to help me work from not on.
