A Small Sketching Shift
May. 1st, 2025 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerLast May, certain technical difficulties (that went away without my doing anything) as much as trying a new program got me posting that I’d continued drawing on my iPad for a number of months. Since then I’ve kept drawing; bringing that up again is pretty much a matter of going back to that new program at last.
After the iPad I’d been using (the first “non-Professional” model to support the “Apple Pencil”) stopped getting major system software updates, I have to admit to buying a new-to-me model through the “refurbished” section of the online Apple store. Aware of what my iPad use had tilted towards, I added a new Apple Pencil suited to that model and offering magnetic attachment and plugless recharging. With that new hardware, though, for the first little while I kept using Tayasui Sketches. Realising I wasn’t colouring as much as I once had could have been one thing that got me thinking about trying Procreate again; I might have still been thinking how I’d had a little trouble finding a brush among its many options that could fill in “basic colour” the way I did with Tayasui Sketches. On the other hand, once I’d started up Procreate on my new iPad I did remember the “hard airbrush” was pretty good at that sort of colouring. Still, I did keep concentrating on black-and-white “pencil” sketches.
So far as “colours” go, I can suppose Tayasui Sketches had started up for the first time with more “general-use” palettes than Procreate downloaded with. On the other hand, it feels more convenient to enter “colours as numbers” into Procreate. When I was working on that with a certain selection of palettes I once happened on, though, I did start wondering if Procreate’s palettes being limited to thirty spaces was just a little inconvenient. One reason I hadn’t committed to Procreate the first time I’d tried it could be supposing the colour mixer in Tayasui Sketches was more convenient for lightening shades than the “disc” picker a small deal seems made of in Procreate. This time, however, I tried an alternative picker and thought that the “saturation” slider wasn’t that distant from the colour mixer in Tayasui Sketches.
I had also thought before that being able to name sketches in Procreate was handier for marking when I’d done them than my default of adding one more layer to Tayasui Sketches works and scrawling the date. In looking back to what I’d drawn around the time of my previous post, I did start to think that maybe I’d even managed some more incremental improvements since then. For all of that I still don’t have the confidence to shift my Tumblr from “computer magazine covers” to sketches or put them on my Bluesky feed, but I suppose I’ve often been contented with being my own best audience. The “I did that myself” satisfaction on finishing even my knocked-off sketches remains, which retains some bearing on how I started drawing again after having to admit dabbling with Stable Diffusion but becoming fed up with “those ‘hands.’” That’s getting into a topic controversial from different directions, of course.
After the iPad I’d been using (the first “non-Professional” model to support the “Apple Pencil”) stopped getting major system software updates, I have to admit to buying a new-to-me model through the “refurbished” section of the online Apple store. Aware of what my iPad use had tilted towards, I added a new Apple Pencil suited to that model and offering magnetic attachment and plugless recharging. With that new hardware, though, for the first little while I kept using Tayasui Sketches. Realising I wasn’t colouring as much as I once had could have been one thing that got me thinking about trying Procreate again; I might have still been thinking how I’d had a little trouble finding a brush among its many options that could fill in “basic colour” the way I did with Tayasui Sketches. On the other hand, once I’d started up Procreate on my new iPad I did remember the “hard airbrush” was pretty good at that sort of colouring. Still, I did keep concentrating on black-and-white “pencil” sketches.
So far as “colours” go, I can suppose Tayasui Sketches had started up for the first time with more “general-use” palettes than Procreate downloaded with. On the other hand, it feels more convenient to enter “colours as numbers” into Procreate. When I was working on that with a certain selection of palettes I once happened on, though, I did start wondering if Procreate’s palettes being limited to thirty spaces was just a little inconvenient. One reason I hadn’t committed to Procreate the first time I’d tried it could be supposing the colour mixer in Tayasui Sketches was more convenient for lightening shades than the “disc” picker a small deal seems made of in Procreate. This time, however, I tried an alternative picker and thought that the “saturation” slider wasn’t that distant from the colour mixer in Tayasui Sketches.
I had also thought before that being able to name sketches in Procreate was handier for marking when I’d done them than my default of adding one more layer to Tayasui Sketches works and scrawling the date. In looking back to what I’d drawn around the time of my previous post, I did start to think that maybe I’d even managed some more incremental improvements since then. For all of that I still don’t have the confidence to shift my Tumblr from “computer magazine covers” to sketches or put them on my Bluesky feed, but I suppose I’ve often been contented with being my own best audience. The “I did that myself” satisfaction on finishing even my knocked-off sketches remains, which retains some bearing on how I started drawing again after having to admit dabbling with Stable Diffusion but becoming fed up with “those ‘hands.’” That’s getting into a topic controversial from different directions, of course.
