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#1 Irenë Hawnetyne

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Posted 16 November 2013 - 01:04 PM

So... my sister recently got herself a graphics tablet, and I'd been pretty tentative to buy one before trying it out, so she let me borrow it for a week. None of the stuff I did was entirely complete, and nor was it meant to look as such, but here 'tis:

On first picking it up and just casually drawing:

first_tablet_experiment_by_irenehawnetyn

 

 

Another one of me messing around:

second_tablet_experiment_by_irenehawnety

 

Giger's Watchguardian Head V:

giger_watchguardian_head_v_tablet_by_ire

 

 

Manson Watercolour-esque 1:

marilyn_manson_watercolour_tablet_2_by_i

 

 

 

Manson Watercolour-esque 2:

marilyn_manson_watercolour_tablet_3_by_i

 

 

Manson Watercolour-esque 3:

marilyn_manson_watercolour_tablet_by_ire

 

 

Manson Watercolour-esque 4:

marilyn_manson_watercolour_tablet_4_by_i

 


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Posted 16 November 2013 - 01:16 PM

like the composition of 2nd and expression of last

 

some talent around =)


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Posted 16 November 2013 - 01:24 PM

What kind was it?

I've been on the hunt for a good reasonably priced one.

The only one I've found in the shops in my town so far was $250 Wacom one which is a bit rich for my blood at the moment.


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Posted 16 November 2013 - 01:29 PM

When I stopped sketching some years ago the only quality boards were the expensive wacom ones. Did this change? I would buy one in that case and start drawing again :)


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Posted 16 November 2013 - 01:54 PM

Yeah, apparently she got it new ~£30, I'll try to ask where she got it tonight if I remember.


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Posted 16 November 2013 - 02:39 PM

Ooo.  Art.  Just keep in mind, bucko... there's only one #1 Sketch Radio Show in this part ah' town, eh?  Eh?



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Posted 16 November 2013 - 11:29 PM

Rad, wait around for some junk mail from JB Hi-Fi and a special. That's how I got mine.


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Posted 17 November 2013 - 05:44 AM

If it's junk mail that shouldn't take long.

Actually JB Hifi were the ones with the $250 one, I still haven't found a Bamboo yet.
There looks to be nothing other than styluses under $100 on the online store.

I was also look at a mouse pen like this.

 

Maybe I should move this discussion elsewhere.


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Posted 17 November 2013 - 01:48 PM

I think this is the one I'm using, ~£50.


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Posted 17 November 2013 - 02:30 PM

So 50p which is I think about $86 AUD, it's not bad cheaper than anything I've seen yet except on Ebay.


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Posted 17 November 2013 - 10:51 PM

I guess the price of electronics is sort of universial around the world, but I probably would have gone for an used intuos at any opportunity instead of a bamboo. But that might be 5-6 year old experiences combined with cheap electronics speaking.

 

 

Besides that, I recommend spending a lot of time tweaking hotkeys in photoshop and even using autohotkey to generate custom hotkeys. Right now I got Alt on my first right click on the pen, and now I've placed a autohotkeyscript that switches between eraser and brush whenever I double-click the alt button. Going to add a third one for general undo, so I can get away with only one arm for a lot of work.

 

Beyond that, experiment with stylus controlled width and opacity. But I don't recommend using them both at the same time. Ignore opacity while using the stylus for brush width for pen-like brushes and ignore brush width when focusing on opacity for shader brushes and more realistic pencil-lines. Maybe a minimum brush size of 30-60% for pencils.

 

Also, lazynezumi is brilliant for stabilizing lines. I bought a license yesterday, since they began updating it this summer(It had been dead since around 2009 or so before that.)


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Posted 17 November 2013 - 11:53 PM

I think this is the one I'm using, ~£50.

Oh, yes. =D


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