Looking back at my first drawing tablet, that $300 felt like a fortune but it honestly taught me more about pressure sensitivity than any tutorial could.

After saving up for months back in 2015, I bought a basic Wacom Intuos and its initial frustration with wobbly lines forced me to actually learn hand control, so what's a piece of old gear that shaped your early process?

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zarakim1mo ago

Remember my first cheap scanner, it had this awful color shift that made everything look muddy. I spent weeks trying to fix scans in Photoshop before it clicked that I should just get the drawing right on paper first. That stupid machine basically forced me to nail my traditional inking because I couldn't rely on fixing it later. Kind of a pain at the time but it definitely built a better habit.

ninaramirez1mo ago

Actually used to hate my old slow computer for crashing during big files, but it taught me to save constantly and work in smaller chunks.

henderson.wesley26d ago

Totally, my old printer would only work if you fed it paper one sheet at a time, which basically trained me to proofread every single page before it printed.