More experimenting with new stuff + some random little doodles

It'd be cool to be able to trick people into thinking some digital drawings of mine are actually traditional. with the drawing on the right I was taking some inspiration from things I've done with pens. didn't reference, maybe I'll try emulating the actual line quality another time

Top left uses a watery-looking smudge brush on the lineart to make it look like I used the wrong type of ink, and painted over it or maybe didn't let the watercolours dry fully. It's a little more fun when you're controlling the "mistake" rather than how it happened to me when I was actually working in traditional mediums

Both I also drew in a bit of a sketch after I had finished these drawings (then used a soft eraser on it just to make it more subtle & get that variation you'd have from actually erasing away the underlines if you didn't quite get it all)

how much I sketch in digital varies a little (mostly on how much of the character I'm drawing) but most of what I do is just freehand & the 'sketches' tend to be very basic blocking- not unlike what I did here.

Tried to make it just barely visible, and vary the opacity like as if some parts were better erased than others, but also in top-left- like the lineart I smudged it where watercolours are.

One thing that traditional has that digital doesn't is how the paper texture affects things and how the tools affect your paper.
maybe those protective, paper-textured films that you can put on screen tablets would sort of help emulate that first one? idk I've never used them.

The little doodles I wasn't trying for anything really