[nevanlinna]

Here are three more. these are my four tablet works what I've ever done. I got a tablet today, thanks for maxon!!!

[nevanlinna]

Hmm. this is my first tablet artwork. (i'm finnish)=)and I like ice-hockey
Here comes:

[maxon]

FUCK yeaH!

ANd who has THIS now?? uh.. UH ;)

[ April 17, 2002: Message edited by: maxon ]

[Gecko]

Heya there.
congratulations on the fine decision of getting yourself a tablet :).

Now, your drawings look very scribbled all around, and it looks like you're using the tablet very much like you would use colored pencils.. tiny brush going back and forth, no real smooth areas of color.
It also looks like you haven't clicked the 'opacity' nor the 'size' check box in the brush options menu in photoshop, so you can't vary the darkness of your strokes or their width, depending on how hard you press. If I'm wrong, try varying the pressure you put on the pen more, to make your lines more interesting to look at.

What I wanted to say is, think of the tablet less as a pencil and a white paper, and more like a brush and canvas. use huge brushes to cover the background, and build your characters on top of that. Start from middle values and add shadows, then start lightening up the highlights. Work yourself down from big (several hundred pixel wide) brushes to those small ones. You'll see how this will save a lot of your time and not leave weird, unfinished looking scribbles everywhere.

What you've got is a good start, the slippery tablet gets a while to be used to. Be open to new things and try (if you haven't yet) painting traditionally with acryls or oils, too. I think it has helped me a lot, learning to paint and not just draw.