Comments on: Blog: A Tablet a Day…

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:54:32 +0000

Wow, thanks, I didn’t know they made those! You’d think they’d ship the tablets with a few optional nibs. Just sent off for mine… let’s see if they work.

By: Boppo

Boppo — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:32:45 +0000

You will do yourself a world of good even if using a 4×5 Graphire2 if you get the stroke nib and the felt nib, get the extra tips package, Intuos3 accessory pen kit or Pro kit or something, they call it. $20 and the frictionless void takes one giant step closer to the feel of pen and paper.

By: Tiago

Tiago — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:50:17 +0000

I have a tiny tablet just like you (it’s wacom too it’s just another model) and I ccan’t draw with it in photoshop either. It’s clunky and that whole “drawing in the void” thing also applies to me.

I mostly use the tablet for the coloring process, doing the lineart by traditional means. I can color with it pretty well but can’t seem to get the hang of it while drawing… go figure.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:12:35 +0000

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

By: Starflier

Starflier — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:26:39 +0000

Well, for one thing, afordable scanners cannot capture colour worth pre chewed bubble gum. I find digitaly colouring hand-drawn lineart (scanned at 600 dpi as a black/white bitmap, then resampled down to a 300 dpi grayscale to make the lines smoother.) the best compromise. Digital lettering is just easier, but personally I prefer to do it by hand, Blambot is just not me…

That said, I’m still experimenting a lot, AND I lack a tablet. (I got a uber-cheap and old JamStudio thing as a gift… killed it within a month) I used to do my rough drawings on paper, then scan them in and do the line art using the curves tool in the GIMP or Inkscape, I didn’t mind the lack of line width varriation, (I normally use microns anyhow) and it was way smoother than anything I could draw. I’ve been practicing though, so I’ve switched to Microns for line art (not entirely mind, just mostly…) My hand’s still a bit unsteady, but that comes from living with two children under the age of ten… Now my process is like so:
On sketchbook paper: Rough scribblings in coloured pencil, refined drawing with black pencil,
On tracing paper: Good line art with micron pens.
After scanning at 600 dpi: Resampled to 300, any errors fixed, coloured.

(I realise, it must seem like “who is this guy?” honestly, I AM producing artwork… Really…)

All that said, I’d love to get my hands on one of those tablet/screen things… All in all I think they’d be worth $1000. A bit of an upgrade from my mouse at any rate…