:) …The aforementioned “sqiggly rectangles” refers to the fact that I had to free/hand-draw the squares…I could not find a “draw a squre” tool, and the square outline stencil was too thick. For the introduction of my Go Figure Characters, however, (Coming up after the first strip!) I’ll be using 1-squares. I might need to add a 2-square when I need it….but now that they are ready, I can get creating! I will most likely use a 3-square format most of the time, maybe a 4 often as well. I’ve made a 1-square, 3-sqaure, 4-square, and free-square, which is just an 8.5×11 paper space for drawings that won’t need sequential squares. Capture also came with Autodesk's Sketchbook which from what I can tell is better suited to technical drawing - more of a CAD program than an art program, although from some of the samples I guess you can create some awsome art in Sketchbook Express too.I’ve been working with the ArtRage3 program and creating my template strips/squares/squiggly rectangles to copy and use as a base template for each strip. I think my time will be better spent learning to use Inkscape, GIMP and Elements. Still trying to figure them out, but they look like children's programs. I found several graphic arts programs in the WIndows 8 app store. I have a home built PC I put together last fall and am running both Windows 7 and Winodws 8 on my new rig. I do have Adobe Elements and I didn't even realize it can be used to create images from scratch as well as editing photographs. From what I can see I can see at first glance Inkscape offers pretty much the same features, and I like the price. I debated getting the "Splash" edition of the Bamboo tablet because it came with Artrage3. But I had fun painting back then and think maybe this much cleaner digital medium could reignite some of that artistic joy I had then, and without the mess or cost of oils and canvas, to say nothing of the smell of turpentine. Way back in my college days I did dabble in oils and painted a few pictures, even sold a couple, so I guess technically I'm a professional - but I would use that word very loosely - and the last painting I sold was oh about three decades ago. I can see how this could become lots of fun. I'm afraid my 'art' is at the preschool finger-painting stage and I'm just starting to get the hang of using the tablet to navigate and draw. Hello, I just bought a Wacom Capture tablet and am just getting started in this graphic arts hobby.
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