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<blockquote data-quote="jmb" data-source="post: 3309044" data-attributes="member: 144016">A few thoughts....Kids benefit massively from seeing their parents sketching. It inspires them. Obviously it&#039;s not so fun cleaning the walls of ballpoint pen... but it&#039;s a hugely positive thing if a kid is in a house where there is some artwork being done and he/she sees early on artwork being worked on and created. Very magical thing for a kid no matter how young! Aside from cost... try to get away from the habit of thinking of wasting paper. You will waste paper... reams of it... that &#039;waste&#039; is necessary. Many people take an approach to their sketches that it&#039;s fine art or I don&#039;t want to mess up my sketchbook. Man that is the death knell for anyone trying to progress in art and sketching. Paper is cheap, pencils are cheap. Burn through it.If the tablet inspires you then go for it. But you want to be keeping your sketches weather digital or traditional as way to look back in a year and monitor progress. They also make great things to hand to the kids and have them color in and play with. You&#039;re more than welcome to open a finished illustration thread if you like. Best if you set it up with some guidelines... what medium, approx time from start to finish, what the goal of the illustration was, hard parts, parts considered easy. Learning does well with guidelines and it will help viewers to understand what was achieved. It&#039;d be a worthy thread! I&#039;d post in it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmb, post: 3309044, member: 144016"] A few thoughts.... Kids benefit massively from seeing their parents sketching. It inspires them. Obviously it's not so fun cleaning the walls of ballpoint pen... but it's a hugely positive thing if a kid is in a house where there is some artwork being done and he/she sees early on artwork being worked on and created. Very magical thing for a kid no matter how young! Aside from cost... try to get away from the habit of thinking of wasting paper. You will waste paper... reams of it... that 'waste' is necessary. Many people take an approach to their sketches that it's fine art or I don't want to mess up my sketchbook. Man that is the death knell for anyone trying to progress in art and sketching. Paper is cheap, pencils are cheap. Burn through it. If the tablet inspires you then go for it. But you want to be keeping your sketches weather digital or traditional as way to look back in a year and monitor progress. They also make great things to hand to the kids and have them color in and play with. You're more than welcome to open a finished illustration thread if you like. Best if you set it up with some guidelines... what medium, approx time from start to finish, what the goal of the illustration was, hard parts, parts considered easy. Learning does well with guidelines and it will help viewers to understand what was achieved. It'd be a worthy thread! I'd post in it. [/QUOTE]

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