Let's see what's the most common! I'll start it off with my sad but nevertheless effective Samsung S2 tablet with medibang paint and and then my finger haha. What about you guys?
Jan '24
Jan '24
Also sad. My kitchen table studio of a Microsoft Surface Pro (can't remember which number. Lets say 8?), with the surface pen and clip studio paint.
Lenovo Yoga Flex laptop/tablet hybrid.
Clip Studio EX (ver 1).
Location? There's a permanent butt dent in my bed. I actually own a stand-up thing for my desk...
For Digital:
1997 to 2006 a mouse and whatever windows version was at the time. First in MS Paint/Animator Pro then Photoshop.
2006 was gifted a Wacom Pro Medium tablet and used whatever version of Windows and Photoshop.
2017 still using my old Wacom with the same nub. Along side Manga Studio now called Clip Studio Paint. On Windows
2020 upgraded to Wacom Pro Large touch tablet (better for sight issues) the 2020 tablet version. Still using Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop. On Windows.
Using either a laptop or desktop using Windows. I prefer to custom build by hand my own systems.
Ive tried Apple laptops and desktops in the past too many issues, bugs and crashing alot.
I have a home office (currently not set up there, because the winter cold makes it unbearable and I prefer to pay for gas heating over hella expensive electric heating haha). The desk and chair are in need of an upgrade though, but that's for later.
As for the equipment, I have a PC (i7 11th gen, 32GB RAM, RTX 3060ti, 3,5TB storage spread across 2 M.2 SSD's and 1 HDD) with a dual screen set-up. One 24 inch monitor and a 22HD Wacom Cintiq.
An iPad, its soulmate apple pen, and their baby Procreate.
I either sit in my bed, on a couch, or break my back on a chair.
At home:
Huion Kamvas Pro 22 drawing computer and Clip Studio Paint EX
Travel:
Huion Pro 12 and an Asus Zenbook Flip 15 using Clip Studio Paint Pro.
Recently acquired a surface pen for sketching
And a good old fashioned sketchbook and some blue pencils, mechanical pencils, some Tombo Fudenosuke brush pens, and some Micron Sakura fineliners
Huon GT-190 and Clip Studio Paint, with Superscript for...well...script writing.
I recently bought a Wacom One tablet for travelling, but the drivers for Huion and Wacom don't exactly play nice so I have to reinstall and uninstall the Wacom driver whenever I switch tablets.
Many years ago, back in the days when we had to feed coal into our computers and crank them by hand to start them, I used a mouse on a 12MHz 80286 with a meg of RAM, a 20MB HDD, and a 640kb VGA card capable of belting out 16 colours at an eye watering 640x480 resolution. I used a program called ZSoft Paintbrush (came free with the mouse) and saved files on 1.44MB 3.5" floppies.
As primitive as that setup was, though, I got some pretty impressive shit done, including this tribute to Judas Priest's 1982 album Screaming For Vengeance (the CB monogram was added later). Since I only had 16 colours to choose from I drew this pixel by pixel, mixing and matching colours to get the desired shades. It took me two weeks.
More recently, I used to use Krita on a Microsoft Surface Pro 8 with the Core i5, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of SSD storage. The actual drawing instrument was a Microsoft Pen. It wasn't enough though, as Krita kept on crashing.
Now I've got a Dell Inspiron 7630 2-in-1 laptop. It has a 13th gen Core i7, 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris graphics plus NVidia graphics (I don't game, though, so I don't think the NVidia ever fires up), and, most importantly, a stunning OLED screen boasting 3840x2400 resolution. 283 pixels per inch, baby! That's better than the Macbook Pro, and that high resolution real estate kicks ass! I use a Dell rechargeable stylus on it
Still using Krita though. I keep telling myself I'll learn CSP, and I'm even paying for the bloody thing, but every time I try I wind up hiding under my bed and sucking my thumb.
XP pen artist 15 hooked up to my laptop
w/ Clip studio pro
on my couch
I have a desk, but the chair has injured my back more than my couch ;w;
A secondhand laptop that can't function without charging...
The cheapest Huion screen tablet I bought (it's 2 years old)
And CSP! (Probably my most luxurious thing)
Excuse the mess...I have to clear a ton of stuffs off.
My Huion Kamvas 22" to the left, My 32" curved monitor center in the corner, and my Lenovo laptop on top of a cooling pad on top of a stand with my newly acquired backlit keyboard...also in the pic- Huion keydial pad, and my backup drives PLUS 13 port USB hub(off to the right- feint blue light). As you can see on the screen I run CSP...I can slide the keyboard under the stand when I need it out of the way.
Workspace:
A portable plastic table & an A4 cutting mat.
Traditional Drawing Tools:
H, HB & 2B pencils, eraser, art eraser, 3 rulers 6", 8" & 12", also 3 French curve rulers too (rarely use them).
Unipin fineliners are my trusty pigment pens for comic. I have a dozen.
Also some non-pigment ink pens & some few types of marker pens.
Papers:
'Premium grade' A3 print papers (100gsm) are my trustly comic papers, I used them for 6~7 years.
70~80gsm typical A4 photocopy papers for sketches, concept arts, etc.
Every once in a while when I do watercolor/marker for my postcard arts, I use a A3 acid-free Drawing pad. (220gsm)
Traditional Coloring Medias:
I have some now suppl no longer I use the alchohol markers more seldom now.
Also got some highlighters, not for serious art but they're quick fun to use.
I have some typical art-grade watercolors boxset. A set of different size watercolor brushes.
Faber-Castell Polychromos color pencils (60 colors), I don't use them much. They are really old.
Digital:
Surface 3 with pen (10.8" screen). Sufficient enough for my work method. Would want to upgrade a newer model with a bit more processing power & ram in future.
I have a 15+ year old still functional 12" HP tablet pc with Wacom digitizer pen in my put-away cabinet, can be an emergency backup in case my surface tablet dies suddenly I can continue my work with that.
XPEN22E
I mostly use Autodesk Sketchbook & Clipstudio
I love Photoshop and think it´s way better than Clip
but I don´t want to pay monthly for it
I often think that drawing at the kitchen table like I used to do it
with my brother in the 80s was more creative but that´s probably
just because I was young back then and didn´t (over)think
