I'm really enjoying Aggretsuko, at least so far. It's less anime though and more kind of cartoony? Still, it's very good.

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We bought a pressure cooker! Our slow cooker is good, but it's pretty basic and has recently turned out to be too small for almost everything in a cookbook I bought. It's a 3.5L one and all my recipes want a 4.5 or bigger!

So, we looked into a bigger slow cooker, but decided it might be better to get a multi-cooker or a pressure cooker instead. That way, if I'm lazy or disorganised (which happens SO OFTEN) I can put things on much later in the day and cut the cooking time down significantly… with the same results!

I am a bit anxious about the whole thing though. I don't know how to use a pressure cooker. I need to read all the instructions carefully and then uhhhhhhhhhh… maybe make lamb rogan josh?

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Originally posted by Nin★Collin

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Wow, your stuff is really nice! I've been meaning to get into some digital art myself, do have any suggestions on where I should start? Any book/guide/tip/hardware suggestions would be quite useful.

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Aww, thank you! And sure, I can suggest some things.

I guess for hardware it depends if you want to use your computer, or if you want something portable.

In recent years I've almost stopped using my computer entirely and I've switched to an iPad Pro (with the Pencil). I can draw straight on the screen, and can take it with me anywhere (I drew Elliot from Mr Robot on the bus!) and lounge on the couch with it (I did most of the rest on my couch). I use a program called Procreate which costs a little up-front but it's very easy to use and very powerful. Most of the things in this thread were created in Procreate on an iPad. I'm finding most of the popular digital artists seem to be switching to the iPad Pro and Procreate as well.

If you want to use your computer, I recommend a graphics tablet. I've always liked the Wacom ones, but if you want to draw directly on a screen they get expensive. It takes a while to get used to using these too, but generally it's easier than trying to sketch with a mouse.

I'm not sure I have any book recommendations specific to digital drawing and colouring. I mostly kind of wing it. I do have some YouTube videos of my work, like this one of me drawing/painting Eleven from Stranger Things or X, or Lulu from Final Fantasy X, or the catgirl, that might help you figure out what to do. There are LOTS of videos on YouTube of people drawing/painting and giving tips.

In general I make a lot of use of layers and blend modes. I almost always put my sketch layer on top of everything at lower opacity with "overlay" set, and then have colours underneath. I also make use of lower-opacity on my brushes, and use the colour picker a lot. You then go over a section lightly and use the colour picker to pick out intermediate shades for painting. I could probably put something in the tips thread sometime about it.

Ahhhh what else. Um. Clip Studio Paint is nice software if you can afford it. A lot of people like Paint Tool Sai (if you have Windows). Photoshop can be really good if you use Kyle Webster's brushes.

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Originally posted by Xkeeper

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Originally posted by Tarale

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I am a bit anxious about the whole thing though.

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No, no.

You're under pressure.

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Yeah, I figure it can't be too hard, but there are functions like being able to sear in the pan and stuff that I don't know how to do. It's apparently good for a whole bunch of things.

I'm also just plain not sure how to convert my slow cooker recipes. I'll have to look into that some more. The rogan josh cooked for 6 hours in the slow cooker but I think it's… much much less in the pressure cooker.

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A big PC is definitely gutsier, but I'm not sure it's that big a deal these days as the iPad Pro is definitely very capable.

Whatever you get, make sure it's something you'll find easy to fit into your lifestyle. It's not much point getting one for the computer if you find you want to veg out on the couch at night and you find you doodle in a notebook instead. Likewise, it's not much use getting an iPad if you're going to be at your computer anyway.

I'm finding I don't use my Wacom Cintiq and computer that often at the moment because the baby doesn't let me disappear into my office. But I definitely manage to use my sketchbook or iPad because I can sneak away to the couch.

Either way you'll have access to all the layers you could ever need. Perhaps when I get a moment (hahaha when's that) I'll try to do a kind of tutorial thing on my ever-changing method. I'll pop that in a different thread though, like the one I set up for tips and tricks.

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I've never found anywhere here that sells fish tacos so the whole idea seems really weird to me

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I already posted some of these elsewhere but I sometimes make a gif or two.

Quality and maturity varies GREATLY.























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I was asked about digital colouring and this is kind of terrible but this is sort of the overall process I do…



Except mostly what happens is I get to stage 3/4 and I just start messing around in random ways doing… whatever I kind of feel like… so this is a very shitty tutorial

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