New drawing tablet

[cuchulainkevin]

I just picked up a nice one today and have tried it out...

Frustrating. Its like having to re-learn how to draw all over again.

For those of you guys with the tablets, how long did it take before working with it beacme natural to you again?

Morty
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[jaybird216]

Everything comes with practice. Just stick with it! Unlike "real" media, at least digital art has Cntrl-Z.

Someone posted in another thread that it may help if you tape a piece of tracing paper over the face of the tablet. That will give you a more toothy "drawing" feel than just having two pieces of hard plastic rubbing one another. Give it a try!
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[cuchulainkevin]

jaybird216 wrote:
Everything comes with practice. Just stick with it! Unlike "real" media, at least digital art has Cntrl-Z.

Someone posted in another thread that it may help if you tape a piece of tracing paper over the face of the tablet. That will give you a more toothy "drawing" feel than just having two pieces of hard plastic rubbing one another. Give it a try!

That might help, I'll give it a try.

Thanks
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[gideon_thorne]

cuchulainkevin wrote:
For those of you guys with the tablets, how long did it take before working with it beacme natural to you again?

Morty

A couple hours. It's no different than being in figure drawing class and doing a contour drawing, where you cant take your eyes off the subject your drawing. Not allowed to look at the paper.
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[cuchulainkevin]

Maybe I'll have to try that as well. I've never taken a class so I have no experience at that and I've always looked directly at the paper as I've worked.

It's helped a little to move the screen closer to the tablet as I work.
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[jaybird216]

How's it going, Morty? Any progress?
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[cuchulainkevin]

Not much. but then part of the problem is my computer. I have 512 mb of memory with a Vista operating system. I've (sadly) found out that Vista is a resource hog, and when I use the tablet it tends to "jump around" because the memory is insufficient.

I'm going to put in a memory upgrade (roughly 30$ or so) and see if that helps.
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[gideon_thorne]

cuchulainkevin wrote:
Not much. but then part of the problem is my computer. I have 512 mb of memory with a Vista operating system. I've (sadly) found out that Vista is a resource hog, and when I use the tablet it tends to "jump around" because the memory is insufficient.

I'm going to put in a memory upgrade (roughly 30$ or so) and see if that helps.

You need, at the absolute minimum, 1 gig, to run vista. 3-4 is better if your running high end graphics programs like photoshop, which also require one gig at the minimum.
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[cuchulainkevin]

gideon_thorne wrote:
You need, at the absolute minimum, 1 gig, to run vista. 3-4 is better if your running high end graphics programs like photoshop, which also require one gig at the minimum.

So I've found out
It's what I get for going cheap on a computer.

The memory upgrade I was looking at would give me the 1 GB.

I figure that would hold me over until I can get a real computer later in the year.
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