Mountain Girl (Patreon)

Hi, all! A little more new art for you this week. :)

XP-pen was kind enough to send me one of their tablets to try out--specifically this Artist 12--and the above is one of the more "polished" sketches I drew with it.

Once I found a computer to connect it to (the XP-pen driver interferes with my Wacom one so I ended up using my son's laptop) I found this to be a nice little tablet to draw on! Very easy to connect with just a single USB-C cable, super light-weight and doesn't get too hot. The only real leaning curve was myself since sitting back on a sofa isn't really my go-to drawing method these days. I guess I prefer being hunched over a desk with either a keyboard or watercolors at the ready.

Still, I liked this waaaaay better than drawing on my iPad mostly because I had a bunch of shortcut keys I could use. You can set those buttons on the side to whatever you want for any program (in this case, Clip Studio Paint) plus I had a laptop for all the extra ones I like to use. The pen has a nice sensitivity to it as well. It won't be replacing my 22" Cintiq if I'm at home, but I can see me traveling with it and even taking it to school visits. Or maybe if I just want to hang out with the family downstairs and put on some vinyl records (which was the case for this piece).

Anyhoo, that's my quick review! As for the art, I was primarily mindlessly sketching with a vague idea of creating something that could work as a dark teal silhouette against a bright pink background. I uploaded a couple of time-lapses if you wanted to watch some of that mindless sketching in action.

• Mountain Girl (quick 60-sec time-lapse)
• Mountain Girl (full 6-min time-lapse)

Have a great rest of the week, everyone!