NotMinus

Hi. I bought a Wacom tablet a couple weeks ago and have been neglecting it, I finally finished (although I feel like toying endlessly) my first drawing I started of an amazon women, critique is welcome. I know a few other members are using tablets, I would like to see your work and maybe you can give me some tips on how to get smoother looking lines with less jitter?

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gallopingwanker

heres one i did in the past

gallopingwanker

painter has the best tools for using a tablet to paint...i don't know what you use, but if it's not painter....you might want to get a hold of the program

exizldelfuego

These look great. I've long sat on the fence concerning tablets. They've always seemed like they'd be fun to have. But quite frankly, whenever I'm working, I've only once come across an instance where I thought "this would be so much easier if I had a tablet." I therefore haven't been able to rationalize the purchase of one because it's a decent amount of money for something that might just be left collecting dust. My one tablet instance, though, happened very recently when I first experimented with the creation of calligraphic letters in a vectored graphic setting. I was trying to mimic my handwriting. I'm taking typography and printmaking classes this fall, so I'm going to see if that might finally push me one way or the other.

In terms of trying to get clean, smooth lines, I might suggest attempting to incorporate some rasterized vector lines into your work. It's worked pretty well for me so far. I LOVE clean and crisp lines.

Sun Tzu

This may seem a silly question; but there are so many "tpys" I want to get; I have to prioritize. How is it to work with one of these? Is there a huge difference between working with a high quality one than a lower cost one?

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bem69

Nice work NotMinus, just try to blend the colors more. And gallopingwanker, that's beautiful, what software did you use to make that?

skier

Suntzu, unless you are a professional artist, a 4x5 inch tablet will work great.
As well, get a Wacom tablet- at 150$ (or less) for an intuos it's reasonably priced, and they have great service and quality. They totally dominate the market because of that.

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gallopingwanker

my 4x5 was 99 bucks, and it works great, i've used most sizes and theres really not much of a difference...and bem69, i used painter to paint that portrait

bem69

Great, I gotta get my hands on painter now.

RonRyan85

GallopingWanker:

Drawing of the gal in the white blouse is very good!

Street Veteran

gallopingwanker....thats tight coolest thing ive ever seen as far as a painting goes by someone on here.