Astropad is just a small team of five people that have achieved a pretty amazing feat. Well, my friends, I’m happy to tell you that the day has come where Astropad has finally begun to live up to its promises. We decided to keep quiet about Astropad and wait for future updates to solve the problems. Not only that, but our favorite software, Clip Studio Paint, was not yet fully supported. To be honest, our first impression was a bit disappointing: Astropad worked, but the latency (a slight delay in rendering a brush stroke) was annoying. Astropad saves the day!Ībout 9 months ago, we got word that there was now a way to connect our Mac computers to our iPads. These are the more professional applications that currently only work on computers. However, we always wished there was a way for our iPad users to take advantage of the power of computer programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint. We started re-making our custom brush sets in Procreate, which quickly became our most popular offerings. We were forced to pivot immediately and we found comfort in an iPad design app called Procreate. This meant they weren’t going to be able to use what we were making, since iPads use apps – not computer programs. While we were busy developing workflows and products that worked great on computer programs such as Clip Studio Paint, a large percentage of the first-time digital users we were hoping to cater to were buying iPads instead of Wacoms. One of the major trends we witnessed in our community of tattoo artists was the monumental arrival of the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. In just a few short months, I had gathered together a community of tattooers, designers, and craftspeople who were also curious about what a digital workflow could offer them. In early 2016, my company, Tattoo Smart,was born. I became so interested in digital design techniques for tattoo illustration that I felt a calling to create a platform for sharing the knowledge and tools that I had discovered. iPad Pro brings new trends to digital design I even figured out how to make custom brushes that make instant snake scales, chains, ropes, banners, and countless other elements. Then I could take the whole drawing to a full color rendering with all of the freedom to change the colors around until my client and I were happy with them. With Clip Studio Paint, I was able to create perfect line art for my tattoo stencils. I LOVED knowing that I had a solid plan in place - and in less time than it would have taken me to generate this level of illustration with my antique drawing devices (pencils and paper). My clients LOVED seeing a digital rendering of what their tattoo would eventually look like. During the course of the next year, I learned to create full color renderings of my tattoo designs using software called Clip Studio Paint. Designing tattoos that my clients would proudly wear on their skin for life was too important of a responsibility to leave up to a simple sketch. Final design: Tattoo Smart brushes were used to layout the snake scalesĪbout 4 years ago, I completely ditched my sketchbook and bought a gigantic Wacom Cintiq tablet.
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