#make sure to stay hydrated too!! rest your eyes especially if youre doing digital art

[gunstellations]

i know this is isnt even sonadow adjacent, but i'm a traditional artist who is having trouble adjusting to digital. I know carrer-wise its going to be really useful, but i dont know how to go about acclimating to it. I really love your art and i was wondering if you have any advice for me- of course if you want to! Thank you regardless (dont forget to drink water and take breaks!)

ahhh thank you for the ask (and dont worry abt the sonadow ajsjfjs) ill try to answer to the best of my abilities, i took a while mulling this over but i think ill try to explain my process or how i feel about it instead of telling you how you should do things - and i hope you can get some ideas!

for me, between traditional and digital at the base of it, there isnt much difference but it comes down to efficiency and ease somehow, its definitely a faster process for me! i havent done much traditional art myself and its only ever been sketches or pencil drawings for the longest time till i eventually got a tablet and tried out drawing digitally. (ive been technically doing digital for about a decade now and it was VERY on and off till a few years ago tbh) once youre used to a pencil theres a bit of a getting-used-to-it curve so id suggest practicing familiar things a little at first, similar drawings you might do traditionally just to get used to the feeling of using the device and tools. 

in the case of tools, if youre using a specific program, theres usually a lot of helpful videos and tutorials for learning the interface and shortcuts, i find learning those early on helps out a lot, especially with programs like csp where its kind of overwhelming at first. (i use procreate on an ipad because its simple and i never got around to being able to effectively using csp...) i say learn the basics of the program first with simple drawings because  if you start out attempting to draw something seriously and you spend most of the process frustrated at the program and being kicked out of the flow its kind of depressing to me...

as a career id say learning digital tools is definitely important, but at the same time i think id recommend not giving up entirely on traditional too. whenever i have art block i like to switch mediums and it often times helps! theres just something comfortable about pencil and paper and the restriction and lack of choices it comes with really does help with especially worrying about perfecting a drawing. you can also mix and match! i know a few artists who do their sketches on paper and render it digitally too, theres no limitation like that :D

also i just wanted to say im really honored you liked my art enough to ask, this is the first time something like this has happened and it made me so surprised and happy so thank you! i am also self taught though and just draw for fun so do take it with a grain of salt - but i hope it helped! o/