1404 days

A few weeks ago I broke the streak of being a mouse artist...as in, using the mouse to make digital art.

It was a decision I made on a whim one day. Even though I have a tablet, my desk area was too small and it was becoming inconvenient to have to take it out every time I wanted to draw. The mouse is always there, so why not?

I was a mouse artist before I ever used a tablet, anyway, thanks to Disney Create (siiiigh), so it was a bit of a return to form.

Now that I'm back on a tablet, there are a few differences I've noticed. Obviously, there's a lack of pen pressure, but there's also the controlled feeling of everything. You don't wave your mouse around all willy-nilly, right? You're always aiming for a destination. Because of this, I think my art always lacked some "soul" ...

Anyway. Using a mouse isn't too bad, but if you want more room for expression, it's probably a bad idea to use one. I find that using it for too long makes it hard to return to more traditional forms of art, despite the fact that using a mouse isn't exactly natural for people.

I'll end it with some art to show my progression in using a mouse.

I remember this being my first ever mouse art. (I do not know who this girl is.)

 

And here are the next 4 years...

 

Yep, yaup, yep! (All this to say, I'll still be using it just out of habit... but it was fun to recollect on the past five years of using a mouse for art!)