How to draw in mouse? (Question)

[Knotnu]

I have been drawing mouse or touchpad for awhile now but I don't really consider buying any equipment to make proper drawings online because I'm afraid that I will just waste money and not do the habit. Anyways as you can tell by my profile picture (unless if it changed then I provide the picture bellow), it is made with mouse.   



I wonder if anyone else in the forum make drawings only with mouse/trackpad 

[virtualpet2001]

i have a drawing tablet but i havent used it in a few years for multiple reasons (takes too long to set up, cat chews on the wires) so literally all the art i make nowadays is done with the mouse. i long for pen pressure sometimes but in terms of actually making lines it is perfectly ok. the best thing is to make sure your mousepad or surface is totally smooth so it doesnt catch on anything
i found these mouse ink brushes for krita awhile ago and i havent seen much but they are very good to use so far

[Knotnu]

i have a drawing tablet but i havent used it in a few years for multiple reasons (takes too long to set up, cat chews on the wires) so literally all the art i make nowadays is done with the mouse. i long for pen pressure sometimes but in terms of actually making lines it is perfectly ok. the best thing is to make sure your mousepad or surface is totally smooth so it doesnt catch on anything
i found these mouse ink brushes for krita awhile ago and i havent seen much but they are very good to use so far

That is really cool, i did also forgot that the drawing tablets can also be bulky like a computer since I just saw lots of people with the mess of cords online and i'm like, "wow, the screen looks cool but it takes up the space".
For the link you found, i'll gonna try it out once I clean my hard drive. But overall I didn't knew a software exist till now! Thank you so much for sharing 
I guess my only investment will be a long square mouse pad.

[xwindows]

I wonder if anyone else in the forum make drawings only with mouse/trackpad 

I do for more than a decade now (self-taught). And since you mentioned profile picture: my current profile picture, as well as most graphics in my personal website, are also drawn using mouse as well.

My first recommendation for whomever that would like to use mouse (or by extension, trackpad) for drawing, is to draw in vector graphics rather than raster (pixel-based) graphics you've been familiar with. When you draw in vector, you're not drawing pixels, but rather creating geometric shapes which could be edited afterward; this frees you from having to nail the shapes precisely in the first time (which you often can't do with mouse); then you can move, adjust, and refine individual parts to your liking later; as many times you want. Great quality can be reached as long as you have patience.

Oh, and have I mentioned yet that file size of vector drawing is also tiny (like, kilobytes), while capable to be enlarged infinitely without ever pixelating?

Inkscape is a well-known art software for making these (1). It is a user-respecting free(dom) software; and its native text-based SVG file format is libre standard (2), which is basically viewable in all web browsers since mid-2010s, as well as inspectable/editable in text editor for full transparency and your tinkering needs.

If you need further pointers on how to use Inkscape, ask.


(1) Other well-known ones are Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash/Animate, and CorelDraw; but they're all proprietary so I can't recommend them. Also, if you don't want to be chopped into pieces and sold as feedstock into art-laundering machine, stay away as far from Adobe as possible.

(2) Saving in a file format with published specification means you don't have to worry much if you have to change the software down the line.

[Dan Q]

Seconding @xwindows' suggestion to use vectors.

But if you're not going to do that: be aware that many operating systems do mouse acceleration by default. Mouse acceleration means that if you move your mouse a little faster, the cursor moves a lot faster.

Early mice didn't do this, but it's a good feature and it's pretty intuitive. You might not have even noticed that your computer does it! But you can test it: put your cursor against one site of the screen and move it slowly about 3cm. Now reset and do the same movement but much faster. You'll see that the cursor moves further the second time, even though the mouse moved the same distance.

This can make "painting" with a mouse difficult (it's also why you probably find it hard to sign your name using a mouse: the mixed fast-and-slow motions of a well-practised signature translate into a mixture of long-and-short lengths of lines and it looks a total mess!).

So: if you want to use a mouse "like" a drawing tablet, you should try temporarily disabling mouse acceleration. In Windows, the setting is called "Enhance pointer precision" (because Microsoft consider it to be "moving less when slow" rather than "moving more when fast").