Still experimenting with Sketchbook Pro.  I thought I’d post one in the middle of working on it, so you can still see the rough sketch lines leading up to a finished drawing…

Sketchbook Pro is making it really easy for me to use the Wacom tablet to sketch out a drawing on.  Here I’ve tightened up the lines a bit and started to add some color… 

I don’t have a fill tool in Sketchbook Pro, so I’m having to add color one brush stroke at a time.  But there are layers so what I did was add another layer over my pencil lines and used a pen tool to draw the inks over the pencils.  Then I added another layer for color between the two and started coloring in.  I’ve started here, to erase some of the lines on the pencil layer to tighten things up a bit.

In retrospect, if I’d had half a brain I’d have done the pencils in a light blue color, so I could easily differentiate between them and the inks on the ink layer while working on it.  But I’m not used to using blue pencil like some other artists, so it didn’t occur to me until I was well into the inking process.  

There is a marker tool, which works to blend the colors between layers.  I’ll start using that later to add depth and texture.

I notice I keep using the terminology of traditional tools to explain what I’m doing, even though it only applies in metaphor.  I’m not really creating pencils or inks…just using software tools that mimic how those things work.  It seems a bit dishonest to call them "pencils".  But I can’t think of another word to use here.