Beetsandink - Beets And Ink

A new piece of hardware was gifted to me recently, a Samsung Note 2, which means mobile digital painting with an actual stylus instead of the rubber-finger-pen!  I’m usually tethered to Photoshop so this is nice to expand my reach.  I had already paid for Sketchbook Pro, that other time I had Android for a while, but between now and then they changed their pricing model to a yearly subscription so I had to pony up again.  Which means I get the desktop version now, which notably has some frame animation tools I look forward to exploring to see what it has and what it doesn’t.  I’m guessing GIMP probably has a similar frame tool to photoshop wouldn’t it.  I used GIMP 9 or so years ago to make a handful of animated gifs and haven’t had a lot of time on it since, but I don’t recall there being a time slider, a rather necessary tool.  Anyways...

so I may be onto something.

I'm here trying to draw and being grumpy that on the computer I'm forever unable to draw a straight line with the Wacom tablet, then I realize that I don't have much traction to negate my twitchy limbs like I do drawing in graphite on paper.  So I tape a sheet of paper over my tablet and then sandpaper the plastic stylus nib.  Lo and behold I have paper traction and an improved line drawing process.

alternately I could splurge on a Wacom Intuos4 that already has the texture built in.  or do they make variant pad inserts for my Intuos3?  eh paper is cheap.