Picked a tablet pen over a mouse for my first digital drawing, total disaster at first

So I finally got into digital art a few months back and had to decide between using a screen tablet pen or just sticking with my old mouse. I went with the pen because everyone online swears by it, but man my first week was rough. I couldn't stop my hand from shaking and my lines looked like a drunk spider crawled across the screen. I spent like 4 hours trying to draw a simple circle and it came out as a lumpy potato. The pressure sensitivity felt like a alien tool in my hand. Then I tried a mouse for one sketch and it was way easier to control but felt so clunky for shading. Has anyone else had a rough switch to a pen and tablet? I'm still using the pen but I swear my wrist wants to quit daily.

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jamesm381mo ago

Honestly it's like learning any new tool you gotta unlearn all the old muscle memory first.

rosebarnes1mo ago

Yeah the whole "unlearn old muscle memory" thing with @jamesm38 is spot on, but it's more like you're adding a new way of doing something not fully erasing the old one.

seth_harris361mo ago

Read a study that said old habits don't die, they just get buried under new ones.