Nothing new yet...

... but I'm working on it, honest.

But I thought I'd take a moment to do a brief meditation on the differences between my usual medium (pencils) and the tablet that I'm using for the purposes of this blog.

If there's one mantra going through my head when I draw, it's something I read in one of the books I used to get this far: "Even Jack Kirby needed an eraser." And I love my erasers. Whether for correcting lines or texturing, erasers rule my world. The inventor of the gummy eraser, in particular, is on my shortlist of nominees for sainthood, should the Vatican ever get around to asking me.

So when I draw a bad line in Inkscape, my first instinct is to hit ctrl-Z to undo it.

That way, I've realized, lies madness. Instead, it's a question of moving nodes and grabbing bezier curve handles in order to get the line just so.

Here's a quick example: An attempted drawing of an eye via my "old" way (drawing lines as best I can and undoing when dissatisfied:



And here's the same pic with attention paid to the curves and nodes:



I know, this is kindergarten stuff to anyone who's been doing this sort of thing for any length of time, but it's new to me. I'm just documenting my process of mental adjustment here.