Whilst on my main program, Gimp, I was gimping around drawing Amy the hedgehog, when it came to my attention that I couldn't draw her eyelashes very well because the pen stroke didn't make a triangle at the end (the eyelashes didn't look normal). So I went searching through the internet only to find that my version of gimp (2.8) does not support tablet users!
At first, this seemed kind of strange to me. After all, I was using a tablet and yet I could still access gimp perfectly fine! I had to read a bit more reviews to find out what this person meant. What he/she means to say is that gimp 2.8 doesn't support the pen pressure feature of the tablet.
Knowing full well that there would be no way to get pen pressure in gimp, I decided to go through the pile of software that came with my tablet when I first purchased it, and I discovered a program on the bamboo dock called 'sumo paint'.
To start off with, I decided to draw a cube. To get the pen pressure working you select 'pen pressure' in brush style like so:
After a few minutes of doodling around, I ended up really loving the feeling of pen pressure and came up with the following:
In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I think I will be using more of sumopaint now on despite some people's reviews of gimp being far better than sumopaint.
They are both free programs so I recommend you give both of them a try to see which one you like better!
