I would like to know what you use, I use paint SAI (my stabilizer doesnt seem to be working at all) and I can draw something amazing on paper but once I get it on the computer it seems to just look terrible to me:( I would love to know the steps you do in making your art piece, maybe i am messing something up lol

art that i have done http://s1113.photobucket.com/user/nikkyy15/library/Art%20I%20made?sort=3&page=1 it just looks so much better on paper to me ;_;

one of my paper ones that im proud of^^ [URL=http://s1113.photobucket.com/user/nikkyy15/media/Art%20I%20made/3fe7432f-399e-4b56-aa89-a8fa77fe0ceb_zps07f7b199.png.html][IMG]http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k507/nikkyy15/Art%20I%20made/3fe7432f-399e-4b56-aa89-a8fa77fe0ceb_zps07f7b199.png[/IMG][/URL]

Let's talk about art, indeed!

When I first started drawing, and for years, I felt that drawings on paper looked better than digital stuff. To be honest, this is because you're not drawing on the computer the way you do on paper. On paper, you have direct, tactical control for your pencil weight, the darkness of lines, etc. As you create lines and shadow masses, you can make their forms intuitively -- where as on the computer, you're following a strict process to "finish" the piece, where you line it with the stabilizer, fill in color masses, dump in shadows, etc. What you're losing is the intuitive "artfulness" to the process, because you're not thinking about how dark something is, or how thick, etc. and you're simply making the lines and adding color; it ends up looking artificial.

The way I make art now, I draw the same way on the computer as I do on paper, the process is the same. I don't bucketfill colors or use stabilizers to line (well, I don't really line things either - I do clean sketches and paintings) I do it with my hand and with an intuitive process in mind that considers the position of various objects and lighting direction, etc. ...I would link some of my stuff, but 90% of it is super NSFW. Anyway, I hope what I said makes sense. Especially when you're starting out with art, it's easy to lose the intuitive nature of drawing when you're using a computer. But as you get more comfortable drawing with a tablet, and more comfortable with the fundamentals of art in general the process will just streamline.