Is it possible to do digital drawing without a graphics tablet (yet)?

Question

Design

I do 3d modeling. I decided that it would be nice to improve my drawing skills. I'm not even bad at drawing on paper, but still, I would like to learn digital drawing. Only at the beginning of the year I temporarily moved to Tajikistan, and due to quarantine, I was stuck here for more than half a year. Given the demand for graphics tablets here, you can only find them with the support of Jesus (we are not on the best of terms). So I want to know if it is possible to develop in this business with a mouse, until I can still buy a tablet.

Answer 1

You can.
Source: at one of the works, the designer was sitting at a PC, an office monitor and drawing with a mouse. At another job at a higher level, there was already a designer with a tablet and a pontoon monitor with a higher salary than the previous one. And finally, in the enterprise, there were designers behind Macs with tablets the size of a tabletop with a salary almost catching up with mine at that time.

Answer 2

I'll tell you my recipe, how I managed before I bought a graphics tablet. I drew all the illustrations on paper, without coloring, only the outlines. Then I took a picture on my smartphone and threw it into illustrator. In illustrator, I outlined all the contours with vectors, and then applied brush styles. Coloring was already easier with the mouse. In addition, there is a gradient mesh, plus some textures I threw in before processing them in Photoshop. It turned out in its own way of course stylized, but the main task was completed. I will not say that the graphics tablet directly accelerated my work. On the contrary, the temptation was always to redraw the contour again, to get confused once again. And so I had to carefully plan my work.

Answer 3

possible, but inconvenient, and this is more for illustrations and not drawing. after several years of torment with the mouse, I moved to the tablet so it became easier to breathe straight. it's like going from heavy boots to light sneakers in the spring. you don't walk, you fly

Answer 4

It’s better to buy a graphics tablet right away, even if it’s cheap - it can’t be compared to drawing with a mouse.
I recommend XP-Pen tablets , they have very reasonable prices and good quality. You can order at the lowest price through their online store on Aliexpress .

Answer 5

Can I have been saving up for GP for a year now and sitting drawing with a mouse