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Post by windrunner on Apr 26, 2008 9:10:03 GMT -5
I was asking myself if the others painters here still use their mouse (like me) or a tablet for their paints; I already have a tablet but never used for the planes; didn't found it is that usefull. So, what do you prefer? mouse or tablet?
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Post by spad54 on Apr 26, 2008 15:17:28 GMT -5
I also had a tablet and after a short time went back to the mouse. I think that if I had stayed with it the tablet might have won out, however it was just simpler to use the mouse. One less interface.
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Post by lifejogger on Apr 27, 2008 20:13:08 GMT -5
What's a tablet?
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Post by jimslost on Apr 27, 2008 21:16:44 GMT -5
Something the mouse chewed up? |
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Post by windrunner on Apr 28, 2008 13:05:07 GMT -5
A graphic tablet is more or less a mouse with a pencil shape that works on a tablet pad; ir is very useful to draw but I don't find it is very useful for applying colours or photoshop. An small example of what you can do here (a fast sketch I've done)  Once you get used to it, can be fast; but nothing is like a pencil and a piece of paper. |
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Post by lifejogger on Apr 28, 2008 13:21:36 GMT -5
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Post by Barbara Ellen on Apr 28, 2008 14:29:30 GMT -5
Very nice Damian, I am an artist, and have been since I was a little girl. My favorite are pencil sketches, and yours are excellent. I love the way you caught the facial expressions, and body language on each character. I also like the crayon medium like conte. I have never really tried doing my sketches with the computer, will have to look into that. Thanks for sharing....... Hugs
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Post by felixffds on Apr 28, 2008 18:38:01 GMT -5
I'm on my 3rd WACOM tablet. Since it comes with both pen and mouse, I switch constantly for modelling and texturing.
Like you say, it gets to the point where you switch automatically without thinking between pen and mouse.
I find vector drawing/editing easier with a pen, flood filling, etc with a mouse....
6 of one, half a dozen of the other...
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Post by windrunner on Apr 28, 2008 23:57:49 GMT -5
Wacom is a legend isn't? I think I'll get one during this year; I've only bought an "unkown" and cheap one to see how it worked. Yeah, not that bad, not that easy either. In a way is like to learn to write\draw again. I'm feeling a child again! let's say I'm starting the transition. I even make my attemps to use it for browsing the net, but still in the slow learning curve.
Barbara, glad to see you around, I did missed you a lot!
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Post by Chris B on Apr 29, 2008 17:47:49 GMT -5
Hello, there's life back in the forum... how do I get the forum software to notify?
Sorry, I have also been severely distracted from PC work by illnesses for most of the past couple of months and I missed this thread.
I use a Wacom tablet as both pencil and mouse for a fair bit of my repaint work - some swift work with a felt tip pen around the perimeter to mark out where the menu items and docking windows are. I also like the detachable clear panel on my Wacom pad so that I can put photos, draft sketches and plans onto my pad.
My pad does not appear to have the fine resolution Damian is able to produce - my those are grand sketches there! But then again, I don't think I bought the high resolution pad - or I have the wrong drivers installed. My sketched lines tend to be "skippy". Oh well.
But in the end it is only a tool. As most of my repainting is more technical drawing as opposed to Damian's wonderful freehand work, I can also use my laptop adequately as a drawing tool - the finger-pad... and I have, in the past, even resorted to converting a standard mouse into a digitising mouse by using sticky tape to fix a clear plastic "Cross-hair" lens to the mouse.
The best tool we still have is the one we were born with - a brain that can develop talents. Without talents even a pencil is not much help :wink:
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Post by windrunner on May 2, 2008 10:45:14 GMT -5
Hi Chris, sorry to hear from your health issues; I hope you are fine by now. Take care!
About the pen\tablet, I was able to do that draw thanks to a dedicated program from Autodesk, called Alias Sketchbook Pro. I could never have done such a thing within Photoshop...Alias is as good and intuitive as an Staedler pencil and a paper. I am right now using the pen in photoshop just to paint and makes its job perfectly.
( BTW, my tablet is by no means a Wacom, I only paid about 40 Euro for it... ;D)
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