Wacom INTUOS

[sonicforvergame]

So i decide to by a wacom intuos pro large
it's coming really handy,but i would like to know if you have anything to say about it:
Tips,how to get used to, and more

One last request would be: Does anyone know how to make good perspective using a Wacom

[Jagmaster]

One of my biggest gripes with tablets is that it's incredibly hard for me to draw a nice round circle. If you have a square monitor it'll be even harder to adjust your aspect ratio of your tablet to fit the screen. If I didn't do that, I would have to practice drawing weird ovals in order to make circles.

Idk where it's located for intuos, but somewhere in your program files there should be some kind of preferences utility, and somewhere under advanced settings you should find a dialogue for mapping the tablet area to the screen.

(Notice the "force proportions" box is checked, this is helpful)

When I had a square monitor I had to refine myself to a square portion of the tablet, which was a pain, because a large portion of the surface became a "deadzone".
I only have experience with a bamboo, not intuos pro (I think even the small ones are called intuos nowadays), but my experience would have probably been better with more work area, I can say that.

So, was my bamboo the best drawing tool? No.
Was it better that drawing with a mouse? Oh Heck Yeah.
It is especially nice for coloring and shading (due to pressure sensitivity).

What do I use now?
Well because I'm cheap, I didn't want to spend $1000+ for a Cintiq.
I also didn't want to spend $500+ on a generic drawing monitor with weird drivers.

Sooo I bought a used fijitsu convertible tablet hybrid laptop with a built in wacom digitizer.
I got it on ebay for about $150, loaded ubuntu on it and it works like a charm. It doesn't have much screen real estate though, but hey! you get what you pay for.
Just for convenience sake, I also bought a bluetooth keyboard, so I could leave the tablet folded up and still use shortcuts.





One could also get a Lenovo x60 thinkpad, which is a similar beast. Here's a video.



Now would any of these laptops be a better experience than the intuos? I don't know. Intuos is probably a higher quality tool.

But, Imo it's easier to see what you're drawing directly under your pen. That doesn't mean it's better or worse (there are artists wayyy more talented than I who do use bamboo tablets and still make incredible art and heck, some even use a mouse). It all takes practice.

[sonicforvergame]

Well i first really apreciated that you answerd on this forum (for Prestige : P)
anyway i reallly like the tools you just told me about the laptop screen (I think) is very similar to a cintiq and as you said it is to some people easier
to see what you draw directly but here is a tip for you're bamboo tablet

Draw on a A4 paper what you want ,let'say a sword,then put it on the screen of you're tablet,as you may know wacom use 2040 pressure sensitivity so you can use the wacom pen and draw the image that you draw on the tablet

Let me see what you did using this methode