There are a number of advantages to using a digital drawing tablet for art and for on the go sketching and painting. Many of the best drawing and painting opportunities are on the go whether it is in a figure studio, bar, restaurant, on a city street or in the park. The degree of portability that a tablet gives you is really fantastic and allows for fluent travel and art making with a basic travel item that one may well want to have with you for other reasons.

When I looked around for some how to websites on figure drawing and painting with a digital drawing tablet I did not see anything really helpful and decided that I could make this website. I hope this website makes you want to give a digital drawing tablet a try for figure drawing and digital painting art. This website is helpful and gives you some insight and understanding about on the go sketching with a digital drawing tablet. Making the change from traditional media to a digital drawing tablet has really excited me about my art both in content and purpose. I enjoy the new options opened up by a digital drawing tablet in  terms of techniques and art making process. The format has also created a new purpose for my art and a giant new audience of potential viewers while simplifying the storage and management of the images.

Other artists always have lots of questions about drawing with a tablet at the open figure studios. If you have questions about drawing with a digital drawing tablet or come up with other advantages that are not listed here please drop me an email through the contact page with your suggestion or question and I will get back to you. I really would love to hear from you. Here are some of the advantages of digital figure drawing and painting with a tablet.

No need to buy art supplies like paper, canvas, paints, medium, solvents, soap, tape, towels, brushes, pencils, stumping, erasers, sharpeners, sand paper and chamois.

No piles of paper and canvas sitting in the closet.

No sharpening pencils, mixing paints, cleaning brushes or (un)packing a bunch of stuff for class.

No mess, cleaning up, wasted paint or ruined clothing.

Low environmental impact and no toxic chemical solvents.

You can draw in low light settings like a jazz bar for instance.

The tablet and your art gets backed up to the cloud daily.

The tablet is continually improving with OS updates and art software is always improving.

Easy to share by email, blog or social media.

You can move the image and resize it on the page or even combine images from different pages.

You can work in layers.