Photoshop Stegosaurus
Helen, the Drawing and Sketching Guide, then pointed out that I’d have gotten smoother lines using a vector drawing tool instead. But I had a lot of fun drawing this stegosaurus (my favorite dinosaur!) using her tutorial and my Bamboo tablet.
I am trying to get comfortable drawing on the computer directly, rather than in a notebook and scanning. I have been resistant for a while, primarily because drawing with a mouse is challenging. Then when I got the tablet, I realized that I was still chicken. So I thought that if I did some exercises like the ones on Helen’s site, I might get more comfortable with the idea. Let me tell you, drawing with a layer tool is really cool. You can draw the body of the stegosaurus on one layer as a big circle/oval and then draw the plates on top, and simply erase the parts of the body that the plates cover, without worrying about erasing the plates! I know, this is probably obvious, but it was almost magical to me, and I’ve been using Photoshop since 1995!