What do you guys reccommend for drawing?

[idl12]

Should I use photoshop for drawing/coluring or just stick with anime studio's built in utilities

[PARKER]

Draw with AS, if you think its too hard its just because you havent got used to its drawing tools.

[madrobot]

How do you normally draw?
1.Draw on paper, scan it in, put it on a layer and trace over the top with the add point tool.

OR
2.freehand the whole thing.

I used to do 1, but next time I'm doing 2, because I reckon I'll get 4x as much done. The time I spent scanning, importing, tracing things I'd already drawn once will be spent producing footage - Pooyah!

[Imago]

The drawing tools in Anime Studio are only vectorial.
I think a kit of raster tools can be useful. I hope Smith Micro will add something like a Microsoft Paint into AS.

[knunk]

The best drawing tool after pencil and paper is Sketchbook pro.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc ... eID=123112

I've no idea why but it feels just right. While its limited for storyboards..Its what Im using for all the boards on our new show. If only it had a time line.

The other main tool is Flash. Yes Im one of the few who likes drawing in Flash

My mate Mick does most of his drawing in Flash also..

http://zeteos.blogspot.com/

[Víctor Paredes]

I recommend you Sai paint tool for sketch on the computer. It's cheap, amazingly fast, light, with fantastic natural brushes simulation and very very complete.
http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
This little software make feel sure that Adobe and other guys makes his software heavy and slow with no more reason that we buy new computers as often as possible. Anyway, Sai is fantastic and full of options, in my slow computer it loads in less than two seconds.

If you want a reusable character, I recommend you to trace your sketch on Anime Studio. Once you have it vectorial you get a lot of freedom to animate it. I recommend you this tutorial, made by Dale, you can find on the description of this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU1o3qmFuX0

good luck.