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What's best? What's best for you...?

I think a lot is made of VS videos and I think the overall message is 'which new toy should you buy'... when really the question should be 'should you waste your time on new shiny tech FOMO videos...or should you go draw some cool stuff with what you have'.

iPads are good, Wacom's are good, and also that pencil and paper you have lying around is good too... despite being centuries old tech!

But with all that said I still think this question is worth discussing (hence the video!!)

When I started out in digital art I was an avant-garde maverick... an advanced team paving the way for what would be possible.

I started drawing my comics digitally way before it was cool. You could probably count on one hand the number of other's who were doing it back then. (mostly because it sucked drawing lines with an old digital tablet!!)

Now I'm more like that old guy telling people to get off my photoshop lawn.

The skills that have traveled with me are the core drawing skills, visual library, art foundation, etc etc. If you understand how to get good results with one tool... you should be able to find good results with a different tool (maybe slightly different... but still good!)

Which just goes to show that the new tech is not always that important (not at this stage when everything is kinda pretty good).


Happy Drawing!


Tim Mcburnie


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