Comments on: Less is more is hard.

By: Egypt Urnash

Egypt Urnash — Thu, 17 May 2007 02:51:21 +0000

Unless your Wacom is at least legal-sized it’s probably too small to draw with your arm.

Grab some paper and a #2 pencil. Sharpen it. Now hold it so that the side of the point touches the paper, instead of the tip.

Now try to draw.

It’s a bitch at first but you’ll get it sooner or later – and you’ll learn to draw with your arm, because holding the pencil this way makes it nearly impssible to move your wrist much.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:55:11 +0000

You don’t have to be drawing with your arm to have a variation in line quality. I don’t know if this is possible with a Wacom, but just exerting a little more pressure with your fingertips (or your) wrist will make the line thicker with most pens and pencils.

The trick is figuring out where you want the lines to be thicker, but a good rule of thumb is to thicken lines where they’re closer, where they’re a shadow, or where they’re delineating something heavy.