Sketching and creating with digital tools

Right now I’m working with a slideshow presentation that will contain several drawings and I feel very pleased with the way I use the digital tool that I have available.

If you are interested, this is the way I work:
1) I did my first daub sketches in Muji Notes with a Wacom Bamboo Stylus – that is a stylus you can use with your iPad. The stylus is rather clumsy, so there’s no point in trying to make the pictures detailed and that’s in fact good when you are in this first stage.

These simple sketches were easy to show to a couple of persons, I just took my iPad from the bag I was carrying when I met them and then we could talk about the sketches, they gave some comments and in Muji Notebook’s overview it was easy for me to change the order of the drawings.

2) I started to try out how to draw some of the figures in Corel Painter 12. Then I draw with a very old Wacom Intous digital drawing pad that still works after I don’t know how many years… This is like drawing with a pencil and with this pencil you can draw details with precision. Painter is an outstanding artistic software with no competitors.

3) Then I tried out the slideshow in Keynote which is the software I use for the presentation. Also an outstanding software!

4) When I was getting closer to the full idea of how to visualize this story I go back to Muji Notes and export all the sketches as jpg-files and mail them to myself. Then I place these pics on slides in Keynote to get an overview. I watch them in the light board mode which makes it easy to arrange them. When I am content with the order I print the slides, nine on each page, and now I can go through them all once more and make notes about exactly which drawings I have to to in Painter and which I can create in Keynote.

I like this way to work because I don’t waste paper, I can work creatively and cooperate with others. To draw pictures digital from start makes it easier to make changes – maybe you need to adjust a line or change a color?

I am so happy to live in this time when I have the opportunity to work in this way! Job satisfaction and happiness!