[Lomi]

ive been having a really hard time getting used to not looking at my hand while drawing... does anyone know of any sort of excercises or any sort of tips on getting more acquainted with this way of drawing/painting?

any help would be appreciated, thanks
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[B0b]

how long have you been using a computer? if you've not used one for long then its prolly going to take you a while to adjust.

1 way you could do it is put a shield up between your hand and urself.. (put a cardboard box with a whole cut out for your arm over your hand or sommat)

just think of it like your using the mouse to draw with still.. it took me a few hrs to stop thinking that i was still using a mouse and picking up the pen and moving it and draggin again, dont' think i ever looked down @ my hand tho' but then i'd been using a pointing device for quite a few years b4 getting a Wacom..

[Lomi]

ive been using a computer for about 10 years now, i think it might be simply because i use the mouse right handed, but i draw with my left hand... ill try your idea though, see if it helps me any, thanks
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[B0b]

ahhh left handed, right handed mouse user, yeah that could explain a few things!

[Frog]

I'm one of those right-hand-mouse/left-hand-tablet types too It's actually quite useful sometimes since you can use both devices semi simultaneously.

I'm pretty sure all you need is practice though, give it a few weeks of intensive use and soon you will have no problems looking at the screen while drawing with the tablet, like anything if you do it enough it becomes second nature.

It may have other benefits too, years ago I remember trying a traditional exercise where you draw a subject by looking at what you're supposed to be drawing rather than looking at the paper - very difficult at the time but the end result was that you could often get better drawings like this because you spent more time observing rather than looking at your own result. Might be a lot easier to do after getting used to a Wacom...
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[eyewoo]

A good exercise I developed is to draw a random, chaotic thick line and then retrace the line with a thinner line - different color. Tip: When you are retracing the line, keep your eyes just a bit ahead of where the actual drawing is happening. Once you start getting pretty accurate at this, you'll have pretty good control of your pen and tablet.

Hint: at the start make a very thick line and trace with a much thinner line.
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[Lomi]

wow, thanks for the responses guys, i really appreciate it! i almost wish that the tracking of the stylus worked with the stylus farther away from the tablet... its really difficult to keep my hand so close to it all the time as well :/
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