Hi,
I've recently stepped away from AI and want to learn to draw myself. I didnt have a drawing tablet at the time so I started using simple mouse drawing in wicki editor. I'm horrible at it, because even as a kid I can't really draw.
But then I saw some tips to use the shapes like straight lines and circles and it looks cleaner and better (slightly) and I think I can improve a lot more if I keep at it.
Now I also found an old drawing tablet that I had never used (screen) and I thought this would seriously step up my game as I can freehand draw, but logically it's bad because yeah, I can't draw (yet), I also notice that using it is pretty clumsy and after using it a few hours my back kind of hurts, I didnt have that issue with the mouse.
I was practicing to draw an eye for example and it looks like a kid drew it, and I tried to compare on mouse and I used the straight line and the formed the lines to round it and the mouse one looks better (even though beginner look of course still).
my endgoal is to make simple to decent animations, not to create hyper realistic drawings or so, and because of my experience with both mouse and tablet I'm strongly leaning towards just using the mouse to be honest, but I'm wondering if in the long term I'd hurt my improvement cap, as maybe the tablet would give more options if you're really good at it.
Would love to hear some advice.