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I finally gave up on trying to draw perfect lines by hand
For years, I was a snob about line art. I thought using the stabilizer tool in Krita was cheating, that real artists just learned to draw a clean line. Then last week, I was trying to ink a character's hair, a really complex set of flowing strands. After about two hours and fifty failed attempts, my hand was cramping and the lines looked shaky. I finally gave in and cranked the stabilizer setting up to 15. The next line I drew was smooth, confident, and exactly what I wanted. It wasn't about the tool doing the work for me, it was about the tool helping my hand do what my brain already saw. I spent the rest of the day finishing the piece, and it's the cleanest line work I've ever done. What other 'cheats' have people found that actually just make the process better?
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kai_burns734mo ago
Fifteen? I didn't even know it went that high...
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gracethomas5mo ago
That stabilizer is just a crutch for people who never learned proper pen control.
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rowanw115mo ago
Wow, that's a pretty harsh take from @gracethomas. Tools exist to help people, not everyone has the same steady hands. Calling it a crutch just shuts down folks who might really need it.
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