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TIL I chose a cheap tablet over a used Cintiq for my sketches and it changed how often I draw
For about 8 months I kept going back and forth between an $80 Lenovo tablet and a $300 Cintiq a guy in Portland was selling on Craigslist. I picked the Lenovo because I could return it if things went bad, and honestly the size made me draw way more often on lunch breaks than I ever did hunched over a desk. My line work is still messy though, and I keep wondering if a screen tablet would fix that or just give me a fancier way to make the same mistakes. Has anyone here gone from a plain tablet to a screen one and actually noticed a difference in their drawing?
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avery6299d ago
You mentioned your line work is still messy and you wonder if a screen tablet would fix that, but can I ask what specifically feels messy about it? Like is it the shaky lines, or that you can't get the curve to go where you want, or something about the pressure? I only ask because those three things have pretty different fixes and only one of them is really about the tablet. A screen might help with hand eye stuff since you're drawing right where you look, but if the issue is control or pressure settings, a Cintiq won't magically fix that either. Have you tried messing with the smoothing or stabilizer settings wherever you draw?
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