Digital Art
Why You’re Struggling to Learn Digital Painting
How to cope with a surplus of options
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PaintTool SAI, Clip Studio, or Adobe Photoshop? An Intuos, or a Cintiq? Windows, or Mac?
If you want to get into digital art, these are some of the barriers you’re going to encounter. An abundance of choices means that getting started feels complicated, because it is.
Digital software is great, but using it has drawbacks for beginners.
Like with traditional drawing, there’s a learning curve — and most of us don’t realize how big it is.
Technology is Only Part of the Problem
People like to think of drawing as a fun little hobby that some people have. If you’ve ever tried to copy a picture you like, you’ve probably lost steam pretty fast.
It’s not as easy as it looks, right?
Add in the tech part of it, and you now have a ton of decisions to make.
Beginners not only have to ask themselves how to draw, but now they have to figure out which software they’re going to use.
