Should I use Lazy Nezumi?

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Should I use Lazy Nezumi? Anonymous 08/05/15 (Wed) 00:40:21 No.3617

So I've been doodling for a few years now. It's something I enjoy doing and I enjoy drawing with pen and paper. My problem comes with transitioning from physical to digital. I already have difficulties drawing good lines but when I start drawing on a tablet my lines seem to get even worse. I really want start drawing digitally because how powerful digital tools are but whenever I try to draw I take 100 redoes before I draw a line I'm remotely satisfied with. I looked up some tutorials on ways to hold my stylus and they've helped (kinda) but in my search I came across a program called Lazy Nezumi. It helps make your lines smooth and lets you alter the shape of the lines. It all looks really neat and I can see it making my life a whole lot easier. The only problem is that it seems kinda like a short cut. I don't think I'll ever want to draw professionally but I want to improve. So does anyone here on /art/ use this program? Thoughts on it? If anyone cares I use Photoshop for drawing (even though from what I hear that isn't really a good idea.)

Apologies if this post was more fit for /loomis/.

Anonymous 08/05/15 (Wed) 06:18:44 No.3620

>>3617

>I use Photoshop for drawing (even though from what I hear that isn't really a good idea

Well you're listening to the wrong people, most professional artists use Photoshop. It's probably not the best one if you do more cartoon/anime style drawings though, other programs have better tools for dealing with lineart.

A lot of people use stabilizers in programs like SAI/Krita/Manga Studio, which is essentially the same thing. There's many different methods to ensure your line is smooth, and I think Manga Studio or Krita even have many different types of smoothing to choose from. In fact a lot of people prefer SAI for this exact reason; because it has the stabilizer while Photoshop doesn't.

Anonymous 08/05/15 (Wed) 11:49:16 No.3621

You'll be much more fulfilled training your skills rather than using this. Practice drawing straight lines and circles, you could fill a sketchbook with them. Use paper for this if you don't have a tablet protector.

Anonymous 08/05/15 (Wed) 14:08:41 No.3622

Stay with pen and paper until you grasp foundation to a considerable extent, then move to SAI (don't use the stabilizer), later you can move to photoshop.

I say this because there's nothing that furthers your progress more than learning foundation with pen and paper, moving to SAI afterwards is ideal, since it's just for straight up drawing, so the transition will be a lot easier, finally, leaving photoshop at the end is something that imo is best for your development as an artist, mainly because, even though it's industry standard, is not just for drawing, so adapting to it will be incredibly hard and tiresome, even more if this is your first experience with digital stuff and you still have your fundies on the way.