What tool are you saving up for?

[DiegoPalacios]

Hope you find some amazing people!

[A-weird-girler]

MMMMMM girl I don't recommend the Ipad pro because it has some trash art programs and I mean TRASH! The only good one is Ibispaint

[DiegoPalacios]

Maybe you haven`t found the right program for you. Have you tried Adobe draw?, you can have it in the iPad Pro. Personally i love it because it was incredibly intuitive, easy to use, and most importantly, it has many tools to make great effects and a good variety of colors.

[A-weird-girler]

No, I haven't! I didn't even know it existed for Ipad pro. I'm telling my cousin tomorrow

[danitasibert]

for me, i just need to keep up with my prismacolor markers and ink pens, they run out after i work on 2 chapters and a many, MANY illustrations, its a little but of a struggle to keep up with....
but I've been recently working on getting into live-streaming so I'm saving for a camera and a proper studio light. ^_^

[MissionFailure]

@blazeclifton Lol, that's not a boring reply! Gosh and here I just upgraded from a Graphire 4 to an Intuos Draw. I've been drooling over those Cintiques but couldn't justify the cost for the same reasons, bills. High-five for same end game goals!

@nycanth Copics are sooo exspensive! I find purchasing the refill bottles helps keep the cost down. Oh! Almost forgot that Sketchbook has a way to get the effect of copic markers digitally. It cost money though sadly.

@mariusthered I feel you on the new computer front. Just can't justify the cost of new hardware to myself yet cause I keep this machine running smoothly if not a bit slower than I'd like. Clip Studio EX has the ability to export into PDF's but if you want a free program to do that, I've been using open/libre office for years to do that with invoices.

@YangKoete Okay, is there any way I can talk you into sharing some of your woodwork? I love crafts!

@Shanny8 I was really lucking and they have a 50% off sale going on right now! So I just snagged it! I totally understand the exploration point, I haven't even dug into the animation features yet!

@Raven_C That is a much fancier book binder than I had expected to see! Usually I see people using wooden or antique clamps/presses. What are you going to make with it first? A novel, comic, journal?

[mariusthered]

I've been using open/libre office for years to do that with invoices.

i use that too it's much better than micro soft office. i know you can do pds text pages but i need a comic making pdf. im closer on that front now.

[MissionFailure]

@punkarsenic I wasn't aware how popular the ipad/pecil combo was, this thread has been very enlightening on that point. Did you have to use the bamboo driver to get the huion to work or were you lucky and the default driver let it function?

@droidmonkey1 what about the mobile studio that @djwaglmuffin mentioned earlier in the thread?

@Kura Now you got me wanting to know more~!

@wumblebumarts Before my friend gifted me this Intuos draw I had been using a Graphire 4 over a decade. Man, do I totally understand that LED eyestrain, I've heard that yellow tinted or red shift can help with the eyeburn. When I first got a tablet I had the same issue with the and eye coordination, much like learning a new skill, practice helps and it might also help improve your traditional arts skills, it did for me.

@Pikku-a They have some affordable all in ones that go on sale at staples or office depot fairly regularly. No idea if Amazon does also but I wish you luck in your hunt!

@naoro_san I haven't heard much about the Dell, but I have heard a few complaints about the Surface book due to display sizes and the touch surface picking up randomly.

@hanneleese Clip Studio EX is almost stupid exspensive, but keeping an eye out for sales helps. I snagged pro on sale for 25 and just snagged the EX upgrade on sale for 84.

[MissionFailure]

What program are you saving up for to do that? I wonder if amazon's kindle comic creator or medibang lets you save multiple files into pdf.

[MissionFailure]

@TheThoughtfulBoxful Plans to travel out into the world and do art in public or in groups?

@danitasibert Prismas and inks always seem to just disappear don't they? What service are you using? Picarto? Twitch? I decided to avoid going on camera myself because of poor quality issues too. Do you have a model in mind?

[mariusthered]

im looking into the paid version of pdfforge

i was going to get the adobe one but Iv'e got right off adobe they seem to have become very greedy over the last few years.

[Raven_C]

That is a much fancier book binder than I had expected to see! Usually I see people using wooden or antique clamps/presses. What are you going to make with it first? A novel, comic, journal?

Definitely a sketch journal or a novel! Or a concept sketchbook that will compliment a novel that I'm writing.

[Heliox14]

I'm saving up for a memory unit (2 TB) for MUSIC! And other novel stuff.
(And also because I lost my first one, and I want it back.)

[punkarsenic]

Did you have to use the bamboo driver to get the huion to work or were you lucky and the default driver let it function?

nah, i had to download a huion driver - without it it just acted like a touch screen, not ideal.

[SynCypher]

Funny enough I JUST got a program I'd been saving for: Camtasia 9. I picked it up so I could make speed paints and animatics. It MSRP's around 215.00 USD, however, I paid 20 bucks USD. Guys, I kid you not, HumbleBundle sometimes has great deals on software and not just stuff for like VPNs or capture software alone. I'd literally been saving for Camtasia 9 when HB had it on sale so, I snapped that up super fast. Anybody in here looking for software that could be expensive or hard to get your hands on, check the HumbleBundle deals because they have a wide array of creative software and yes, video games (sometimes for free). I've also seen game making software (Like RPG maker and similar creative programs) available and on sale. (Never hurts to check, lol)

[Wumbl]

I've got programmes that help me with the eye strain obviously - I've got my computer set up so that there is a gradual, adjusting tint on it. It helps with eye strain but it doesn't change the fact that my brain can't comprehend hand-eye with a computer screen very well.
I mean, being in a room with LED lights can make me pass out so it's not really something I can get used to. It's a neurological condition I got from my mother, and nothing to do with my eyes which I've had examined and they're perfectly fine other than a bit of near-sightedness.
It's not a matter of practice either - I've been drawing with regular tablets for such a long time I've had to just accept it's not gonna work for me. It gets in the way of playing videogames too - some games give me a headache after playing a while, like street fighter. The colours are too bright and my brain gets overwhelmed unless I adjust things.

I've used screen tablets before when I was younger, and I preferred them a lot more. We had some at school and they were very simplistic ones but I could draw on them more naturally because I didn't have to focus so hard to draw lines correctly - it didn't overwhelm my brain so much to draw.

It sucks to be held back from what I love to do by a stupid medical thing like this... Recently I got fatigued after drawing one tricky page and didn't have the energy to draw the second. There's only so much I can do really - there's medication for the headaches caused by the condition we have but in my mother's experience it knocks you unconscious so... treating it is a bit complicated.

[danitasibert]

yeah they can, especially the skin tons colors... (sigh)
I'd like to live stream on twitch, I'm still working on getting my material for that, i like twitch more that picarto, i watch a lot of gamer plus i like that people can host other streams. (i don't knwo if picarto can do that.)
Also i was going to have my camera mostly be on my drawing space rather than me, but I'll have to see my set up when i get my equipment.

[TheThoughtfulBoxful]

@TheThoughtfulBoxful Plans to travel out into the world and do art in public or in groups?

Yeah!! It would be nice to be able to take my work to the park or zoo, or just hang around at Starbucks and stealthily draw people lol. Plus, an ipad just seems like a better investment for me anyway

[droidmonkey1]

Pricey, and It's like buying a new computer.

[YangKoete]

o wo' Nope. My hidden stuff.