A Giraffe
I think “sketch” is a misnomer for this program. The way color/lines are applied, a more painterly, bottom-up approach is required (general sense first, then working up into detail) rather than the natural preference of digital artwork to be top-down (detail now, color and contrast later).
Incidentally, it’s kind of hard to approach this program with a painterly mindset because the widest brush isn’t very wide at all. As you can see, filling in any area with solid color takes a while, and then there’s inherent transparency which makes it even more difficult to get the “right” color. This same “technique” is used in some other online paint programs (notably Facebook’s graffiti program) but those have a tendency to allow larger brushes, more control over transparency, and so on. Hopefully sketchcast will work some of these problems out soon, because it’s quite fun to use otherwise. :0
oh, and there is a small problem with the real-time recording; while it’s great if you’re talking while drawing, the result in a silent video is that you get periods of time where nothing’s happening because, for example, the artist is having difficulty finding the right color to use. oh well. D:
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