Flockdraw device tool poll

[cavehamster]

A big part of that is your connection.

I do have a pretty fast connection, though... my machine has trouble playing youtube videos smoothly, so...

[PeregrineBF]

A big part of that is your connection.

I do have a pretty fast connection, though... my machine has trouble playing youtube videos smoothly, so...

Well, half of that is that flash is a steaming pile of shit.

[Triple Zero]

The bigger problem is the disconnect I have between what I am doing and what see... i have a lot of trouble getting used to moving without drawing and drawing, or my hand cramping up.

Took me about two hours of playing around in a simple graphics program to get the hang of that disconnect thing you speak of.

Just fire up a simple image editing tool and start scribbling. Even MSPaint works, the important part being that you want a shortcut for "clear the entire screen" (ctrl-shift-N in MSPaint, or simply Del in GIMP) so that you can start over again quickly. Then draw shit. Write your name. Write cool lettering. Draw a little dude. Give him a text balloon and make him say something retarded.

If you have GIMP or Photoshop, be sure to try out hooking the pressure sensitivity to brush size. If you draw black on a white background it's a lot like using a brush with black ink.

Or at least, it looks a lot like the pics in my old "how to draw cartoons" books that showed the difference in expressivity between using a fixed-size marker and a brush. I never used a brush myself because I never got used to drawing without resting my hand on the paper, which is kind of a problem when you're working with wet ink or paint.