Progress

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This shows the initial drawing for a webcomic page of Tales of the Galli (shown at 50% size, the original is 1417x1000px). Up until now I've always drawn the originals on paper, inked that and scanned it into computer. Sometimes I've converted that to Illustrator and coloured it in that, but I prefer to do that in Photoshop.Anyway, this shows the result of using Paint Tool SAI to draw the originals instead. I created a range of layers and drew using the pen the layouts and roughs for the figures. Those layers were set to 50% opacity, and when I was satisfied with the roughs I created a top layer at 100% and drew the finished line work on that. Since I now have a Wacom Bamboo, I've been finding this very easy to do in SAI - more so than Photoshop. Very easy to draw quickly and fluidly in SAI and it's easy to correct mistakes and redraw. Once that's done I can export that as a Photoshop file, so no scanning needed.

No doubt everyone else figured this out ages ago, but for me it's a breakthru. have been scared to use graphics tablets up until now and the results were mixed. This however is encouraging.