/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5208969
>It's clearly digital, and doesn't look like any of the CSP basic brushes, any ideas?
Likely one of the basic pens. Probably g pen and / or mapping on a Monochrome canvas.

>>5208588
>I usually make lots of little marks to get them, because g-pen is too thick and hard.

You're likely using the g-pen incorrectly or in a sub-par manner. Much like its real-world counterpart, it's an extremely versatile tool that nonetheless happens to be a bit of a noob trap because you have to think about and use it in a very particular way.

For the digital pen in particular, I find that it helps to think about it more like a "brush" than as a pen. Delicate changes in brush size comes from working at a very small size and with a very delicate hand and attention to pressure (here I kept my brush at 10px on a 5k height canvas; this picture is zoomed in so that you can see the lines a little better. Note that since the g-pen in its default state has a very high taper with a minimum size of "zero," the vast majority of lines here are going to be under 10px due to the nature of pen pressure and inking).

"Re-stroking" to build up specific levels of thickness is a very good technique to use, as is "double-lining" and then filling in-between the lines to create specific line shapes. It's not a brush you can just pick and "go to town" with; it requires that you pay a lot of attention. That said, it isn't good for everything, and it's impossible to tell if it's good for whatever style you're going with without seeing some sort of example. Don't fall into the trap of lessening the taper available to you with the g-pen unless you know what you're doing and want to achieve a specific visual effect; the taper is something you *want* to have. It's where the entirety of the g-pen's strength comes from. If you don't have it, then your lines are going to seem thick and uniform, which you don't seem to want. Instead, work on your ability to control the amount of pressure in your strokes.