Digital vs Analog Sketching

iPad and Rhoida pad sketches

Arguably the digital sketch is better of the two but it also took five times longer and involved a great deal of tapping and pallet selection. A huge benefit of the iPad using Adobe Fresco is displaying the image directly under my artwork allowing me to trace the lines and shadows. The results were far better than I anticipated.

iPad sketch in Adobe Fresco

Meanwhile the paper sketch was just paper, pencil, pen and my phone where I displayed the reference image.

The paper sketch isn’t great, proportions are way off, but it took maybe five minutes and almost captured the mood. Had I taken more time with the pencil I have no doubt it would eventually look better than the version sketched in Adobe Fresco. Plus it was a lot more relaxing to work on paper than a digital display.

paper sketch

Author: Joseph Dickson

Joseph Dickson is a front-end web developer with experience building higher education websites using Drupal and WordPress.

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