Elsa unleashed. Revisiting an old idea.



I have been using PainttoolSAI for my digital arts until I recently decided to finally splash out and bought MangaStudio 5 and now I don’t know where to begin. It has so many more options, choices, fancy brushes aaaghh. And it has really brought home why I wasn’t enjoying SAI that much and what I have suspected for years, I am more of a drawer than a painter. I see it in people who do paint, they have this special way of seeing the world as blocks of colour and I struggle with that. To me, the world is lines. Curves, swooshes, long swipes and tiny strokes but it all comes down to lines. When I colour it’s just to fill in the voids between the lines. And now with this new program I feel like I have a Pandora’s box of all the pencils and markers in the world at my immediate reach and it’s sooo goood I keep drawing hasty little sketchy things and can’t decide on just one thing because I have to try eeeeverything.

