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The digital art tools that I actually use
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items This is the list of items that I use, not all of them are perfect, but I keep coming back to them. Some of them I didn’t even know existed when I started. Through trial and error and of course years of adjusting adapting these are the items that have...
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Digital Art Gear
Programs and more
MY ART & OTHER
Digital Art Gear
HAVE FUN! GO CREATE DIGITAL ART. This list will get you started!
Wacom makes The best starter drawing tablets, what I love about these is you can plug them into any computer. My son has an old broken dell laptop from 2015, the screen doesn’t work anymore so he has to use an HDMI to connect it to his TV. He uses th...
Wacom Tablet
This is a great tool when you start getting comfortable with your editing program! I love this little thing, you can customize all the buttons to do different functions in shortcuts in the programs to use. It’s like a mouse, but with 100 little contr...
TourBox Editing Controller
So I haven’t used this PC, but what I found for the most part any computer works. If you just hook up a Wacom tablet, it doesn’t really matter the computer so much. That being said I wouldn’t go any less than 16 GB RAM and of course there are many be...
Dell Laptop
MY COMPUTER. I love this thing. I’ve had it for years I think I picked it up back in 2021 and use it almost every single day. It has so many features and it’s specifically designed for digital creators. It’s a little bit more expensive but now that i...
ConceptD – Creator Laptops
DONT FORGET, no really it sucks when you forget you forget these gloves. I’ve tried a few times to make it work without gloves and it is tough. Every time you slide your hand across the screen, it thinks it’s the pen so it leaves a mark, disc glove, ...
Digital Art Glove
THIS WAS A GAME CANGER FOR ME. I didn’t come across this hack until about two years ago. Having multiple monitors connected to my laptop, allowed me to draw on my main screen watch a tutorial on another screen and have a third screen to use for my re...
Dual Portable Laptop Screen Extender
Get a 250GB or larger, it’s important to save your work! I probably have four or five of these sitting around, if you’re making a lot of work it’s important to organize. I’m still working on those skillets now and I feel like I will forever be. If yo...
External SSDs
:) Keeps the vibes going during long drawing sessions! Now, of course, this one isn’t necessary, but if you find yourself in the flow state like I do, and you had an up sitting there for hours doodling on your computer, it’s really nice to have some ...
Razer Headsets
I like to sketch out my ideas before I bring it to the computer, i’m a traditional artist and sometimes even still the fastest way to get an idea out is to do a couple quick sketches on a piece of paper. You can also take a photo of your sketch and b...
Sketch Book
Programs and more
BEST PROGRAMS BY FAR! Now I know Adobe is expensive but there’s not really any competitors for the programs they have. Adobe illustrator and Photoshop are always my go to. They’re so good to use if you’re a creator everything is so intuitive and they...
Adobe Creative Cloud | Details and products
I’ve learned a lot off of skill share. It’s a simple platform that has tutorials and courses that you can take for just about any topic digital arts included. If you’re someone that wants to get good fast, not only what I recommend a digital art clas...
Online Digital Art Classes
This is another great alternative to Adobe Photoshop. It’s almost the same thing and it’s online for everyone completely free. It has almost the same functions and it even uses similar hot keys and shortcuts. If you’re trying to save yourself a buck,...
Canva
Now this one’s a little bit different, this one’s for those people that are looking to start creating 3-D art. This program is a little bit tougher to learn and it can get a little intimidating at first, but once you get comfortable with it, the poss...
Blender
MY ART & OTHER
This is a collection of art and different things related to digital art that I’ve created over the years. I’ll update this as I continue to create!
This is my first digital art. I created it on a crappy computer and I used a Wacom tablet. This was for an event back in 2021. It’s super crazy to look back at this and see all the little things that I didn’t know yet, This was a super fun concert an...
MY FIRST DIGITAL ART!