[AJ]

Hi everyone

All the art that I do is done via your normal everyday art tools ie. pencil/paper etc. I scan my art and then edit it in photoshop using a boring old mouse.

Im sure you have all been there before. I guess its high time I started using a graphics tablet. So I have decided to buy a Wacom tablet.

What I would like to know from you good people is which one you use (Intuos or Graphire?), what size tablet you use and what the benefits of spending more money on a larger tablet are. Im gathering that the larger the tablet is the more detail you can go into but I dunno if I can justify spending a lot of money on a larger high-end Wacom tablet if the smaller home user end ones will do the job just as well.

I thought I would start my research here as its probably the best place to do so.

Thanks in advance.

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[Dan3d]

The larger the tablet does not mean the more detail you can add, it just means the more drawing space you have to draw on. So, if you draw with big, sweeping strokes, then a larger tablet may be a good idea. I tend to draw in a very small area with smaller strokes. Thus, a smaller tablet is fine for me.

There are difference between the Graphire and the Intous. I have an Intous at work and a Graphire at home. The Intous has 1024 levels of pressure while the Graphire has only 512. This means the Intous is 2x as sensitive to your sketched line. Frankly, for me, I haven't seen a difference between 512 and 1024 levels of pressure, but that's me. The biggest difference is the Graphire is small (4x5), but it works for me because of how I draw.

[cybertoker2001]

9"x12" provides a good work space.
And I'd go with an Intuos all the way baby!

Take it easy,
CT2001

[Pat]

12x12" is too large for me. I've owned 2 tablets that large, and while the resolution is excellent, the "screen to hand-motion ratio" required is excessive. I had to exaggerate my strokes making them far larger than I was comfortable with. You do get used to it, but the larger tablets take up a LOT of desk space. I tended to drop them more as well, since I was always holding it weird, sliding it here and there for storage, etc.

4X5 is too small. It's convenient on the desk in terms of space, but the resolution is too dodgey --my cursor always jittered a lot and the smallest movement in my hand created unpredictable marks. Some of my friends swear by them though. But they're twitchy video game players.

For me, the 6X9" Wacom is the perfect size --balancing resolution and responsiveness as well as price.

As far as the levels of pressure go, add my name to the list of people who can't tell the difference between 512 and 1024.

-Pat

[Mordecai]

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[AJ]

Thanks for your help guys. it will get put to good use.

AJ

[creatorstudios]

Hi,
I can tell you just one thing: Stay away from the 12x18 sized intuos. I have one and this thing is just MASSIVE !
Don't get me wrong: It's not bad since you can confine the working space to a smaller portion of the tablet if you aren't confident with drawing with big long strokes. I myself tend to get better lines while drawing small. On the other hand, if you have such a big drawing space it's stupid to shrink it.

Well, if you draw small in photoshop there's just one big problem with the big intuos. I discovered that when I zoom out of the picture to be able to draw in a smaller area of the intuos without having to shrink the active tablet space via tablet setup my lines get really jerky since every small jitter in your hand gets translated into the final line. If anyone has a solution for that except of soothing tea or other things I don't want to mention please send me a note. In the meantime I usually just draw the rough stuff in illustrator. Because illustrator does not add to many vertices on the line, they stay clean and staight.

cya
jens