Recent content by Jimlad

Logitech K380 is a great little tool for making the most out of smaller work areas. There are also small keypads you can use to assign certain functions to any button you like but I'm too used to keyboards to use them.

Sometimes you just need the work, and if there's no flexibility, let the client have his awful design. It's a shame they're landing you with low ratings. What website is this? But if you CAN make enough without this client, there's no dishonour in declining future work for them. Next time you...

I use a keyboard, yeah. The biggest tablet I use is a Cintiq 24 Pro (I also use a 16HD sometimes), and my desk is 160cm wide x 80cm deep, so there's room for a keyboard. I do sometimes use a pretty small bluetooth keyboard instead of a full size one.

Ah I use keyboard shortcuts for most of the tools/selections you described. Much easier. And as for learning more about using any program for illustration, YouTube is your friend.

No art school as such. Though I did study graphic design, and ended up relying on illustration more during the course. I've spent the last 10 years trying to learn everything I wish someone had been able to teach me 25 years ago! It's an ongoing process :ROFLMAO: I drew on paper until my late...

Ah that makes sense. I can't work flat, all my characters end up stretched up vertically :ROFLMAO:

FACT. I recently talked my client (potentially, not sure yet) out of a job entirely because the idea was... well, his little girl thought of it so I don't want to be cruel, but let's say it "lacked commercial appeal". It wouldn't have been fun (or very lucrative) for me and it wouldn't have...

I'd suggest trying it out on the lowest stand setting for a while first. You might get used to it. Traditional drawing tables for pencil & paper were set at an angle as well back in the day. If all else fails and you have to have it flat, rubber feet aren't the worst idea.

Doesn't Google Images also have a tool to only show search results that are free for commercial use? I occasionally look at Unsplash.

I'm a big fan of airflow. Covering vents that were definitely put there for a reason (it would be quicker and easier and cheaper not to bother, so unless air is required for the long-term well-being of the hardware, they wouldn't bother) is something I literally could not do.

Downtime resulted in a scared skeleton with a magic sword who's more up for a scrap than he is.

A few more doodles for this guy. No idea if I'm going to actually do anything with the character or not. Maybe use him to fuel some social media posts?

There's nothing wrong with using reference for certain things, but directly tracing stuff you find on Google, yeah don't do that.

Nope, I just made a lot of decisions at the inking stage. Benefit of a personal project, no clean pencils needed for client approval :ROFLMAO:

Thanks Wardy. Yeah I still stick with Photoshop 99% of the time, never got comfortable using things like Procreate on an iPad. I'm sure this could work well in Illustrator as well if it was for something commercial.