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General Discussion / Re: Official Off-Topic Thread
« on: July 12, 2011, 09:21:03 pm »
None of the 'cautions' that I heard about before getting a tablet seemed to be that big a deal for me, and I'm very happy with it...for pixeling, because I can work longer with less fatigue, and get more natural shapes. For drawing though, there were two things I did not foresee:
The first was how little 'give' there is in the nib. I expected a couple millimeters of spring in it, at least, for direct tactile feedback of how much pressure I was putting into the pen. As far as I can tell, the nib has no spring in it at all, and making lines taper off is nearly impossible. Is this normal, and will the manual driver adjustment help this?
Second, and let's say stroke thickness is solved, the other thing I hadn't thought of is that when you draw IRL you can turn the paper! I would never be able to get the curves to my lines that I was used to if I couldn't orient the page -- or screen. So I looked all over for some kinda hot-key driven app that would run on top of my GIMP or Inkscape, but found nothing. On the SAI forum, though, there was a subforum dedicated to a program called AZ Draw, which seemed rather simple and unimpressive, but a video of it in action showed the screen being rotated! Also, that demo video was pretty cool.
I tried it, and the program was far more impressive than at first glance, doing several things I wish that GIMP could do even. You can free-rotate the screen by dragging -- yay! (you can find the English version a little down on its home page)
So if these two problems are solved, I'll be in business -- perhaps literally. Thanks for all the info, guys!
The first was how little 'give' there is in the nib. I expected a couple millimeters of spring in it, at least, for direct tactile feedback of how much pressure I was putting into the pen. As far as I can tell, the nib has no spring in it at all, and making lines taper off is nearly impossible. Is this normal, and will the manual driver adjustment help this?
Second, and let's say stroke thickness is solved, the other thing I hadn't thought of is that when you draw IRL you can turn the paper! I would never be able to get the curves to my lines that I was used to if I couldn't orient the page -- or screen. So I looked all over for some kinda hot-key driven app that would run on top of my GIMP or Inkscape, but found nothing. On the SAI forum, though, there was a subforum dedicated to a program called AZ Draw, which seemed rather simple and unimpressive, but a video of it in action showed the screen being rotated! Also, that demo video was pretty cool.
I tried it, and the program was far more impressive than at first glance, doing several things I wish that GIMP could do even. You can free-rotate the screen by dragging -- yay! (you can find the English version a little down on its home page)
So if these two problems are solved, I'll be in business -- perhaps literally. Thanks for all the info, guys!