Here’s another advantage to drawing digitally, even for on-location sketching with a laptop. In trying to quickly draw this fidgety little girl at a coffee cafe—who kept looking back and forth from the picture book that her mother was reading to her, back to her mother for questions..constantly flipping her profile 180°—working digitally, I just kept flipping this sketch in sync with the whims of this very young subject. Try doing this with pen and paper..

(this is a close-up..I planned to include mom, book and cafe environment but they got up and left..both the frustration and charm of on-location sketching..)