… and the reason why my gravatar is black and white…
Since I bought my first tablet, a Surface Pro 2 which came with a stylus I was excited to use it as a drawing tool. I thought that’s the first thing you would want to do, at least if you are fond of sketching, right? That was me, the guy who is fond of sketching and had a tablet + stylus.
So one of the first things I did was going to the app store, and what I found were two drawing / sketching apps, I guess, first freshpaint and second sketchbook express. I tried the first one and couldn’t achieve anything pleasant looking. I think that was because it’s more targeted at painting as opposed to sketching. And right now I am more into sketching and don’t find my talent in painting and also I didn’t like the overemphasis of the look and feel of real paper, pen and paint. Then I tried the second one and found it to be of some use. It was clearly more tailored for the purpose of sketching. But then again since it was an express version I can’t really say it was tailored at all. Yes, it did a decent job and that for free but it was a bit buggy and lagged some/many features that are crucial, at least to me. But for a year or so I did stick with it and made some sketches but nothing serious.
Meanwhile I looked out for the possibility of buying a license of a previous photoshop version because I didn’t want to pay some 12 € a month for a Creative Cloud subscription especially since I didn’t know how often I would come to sketch. It just didn’t feel right. I also tried Gimp on my main PC for as long as a year or so but I just never came along with it and didn’t thought of it as a sketching tool to try on the Surface. I think there are people who swear on Gimp … I’m not one of them. Otherwise Gimp is a good thing: It is free and open source, and to have alternatives is mostly always a good thing. But my desire to make sketchings on a PC/ tablet dwindled more and more.
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