tablets for drawing
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- pr2
Anyone can recommended a tablet for drawing?
I have a bunch of 2d pencil drawings that have to be made into computer sketches.
What i'm looking for is to print out the images and just trace those on the tablet. Is it possible?
- Spookytim0
So, you have some pencil drawings. You're going to scan them in, then print them out, then stick them on a drawing a tablet, and re-draw them?
- blogger0
Maybe a cintiq, but they are very pricey
- Around 2k for the 21"blogger
- sweetDodecahedron
- he has it on a swivel base?scarabin
- It comes with oneblogger
- pr20
yeah, basically to trace over the sketch directly. Possible - yes/no?
- Spookytim0
Possible yes.
- blogger0
You could also use layers in photoshop.
- iheartfun0
I use a bamboo with photoshop and does good enough for me.
- pr20
can one of you enlighten me on the process?
You scan the drawing as BG layer and then using your monitor trace over using the tablet?
- Dodecahedron0
you're doing it wrong, just scan and trace
- iheartfun0
The only cheaper option is using a pen tablet like the bamboo
http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamb…Then you you just use your existing computer screen
- blogger0
I did all the legwork for you
- Sep0
There's the Cintiq 12wx if you want to draw on an lcd-screen. Still $1000 though...
I'm using a Intuos4 Large myself, works fine for me.
- blogger0
I been using my wacom with photoshop trying to get some illustrative effects. Anyone use painter? Seems so slow.
- pr20
i guess my question to all the people with tablet experience is how does it differ really from using your mouse and just looking at where your pointer is located on the computer screen?
- iheartfun0
^ 10x better because it has a pressure sensitivity that the mouse doesn't.
- blogger0
Think of the tablet as your mousepad, and the pen tool as your mouse. When you tap the tablet with your pen, it's the same thing as clicking with your mouse. It's really that simple.
- Spookytim0
It differs massively pr2. I don.t use that fancy screen tablet, but I do have a big tablet and you just can't draw accurately with a great big bar-o-soap mouse in your clopper.
Put it this way.... which of the following would give you the most refined and accurate drawings in your sketchbook...
1. A fine nibbed pen
2. A bar-o-soap sized lump of chalk.