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David Turton
For a powerful, yet highly detailed drawing of a tiger's head, David Turton
relied upon the natural combination of the Blob Brush tool and the Wacom ®
Cintiq21UX tablet computer. Because Turton could draw directly on the
tablet itself, and his paths would join automatically as they overlapped, he
felt he had greater control over this kind of meticulous, but still freehand,
pen-and-ink drawing, without having to interrupt the flow to create a new
brush or adjust his stroke width. He began a rough sketch with brush
settings that most closely emulated natural pen strokes. He kept Fidelity and
Smoothness at their lowest settings to be as true to his hand as possible (in
CC you adjust only one Fidelity slider, to most Accurate), and used a very
fine, 2-pixel point.
Gradually Turton refined the tiger's features, filling in more detail, and
keeping the brush tip fine, allowing his strokes to merge naturally as he
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