Ziroc, question about tablets

[slackerboy]

i believe at one time in the past, you had mentioned that you use a tablet for art on the computer, i was wondering what kind of tablet you used. i'm thinking of getting one soon.
Anybody else that has one please share your opinions.

[RudeDawg]

Depending on what you want to spend, Wacom has tablets ranging from $99 to $1899. And from their low-end, they use PhotoShop's pressure-sensitive tools. VERY nice....

Planning on gettign another one soon...

[ 04-16-2002, 06:21 PM: Message edited by: RudeDawg ]

[Epona]

I've only used a tablet for one thing - when I used to work in Facilities Management we had AutoCAD which we used for doing building plans and office furniture layouts - but that was one specifically for use with that particular version of AutoCAD and was used with a puck rather than a mouse. It was great though, made life a LOT easier.

[slackerboy]

i've been looking at this one. (planning on waiting for them to have a refurbished one cause they're cheaper)
http://www.wacom.com/productinfo/products.cfm?sku=GD912

[Epona]

Nice!

Does anyone know of any good free design software I could dl? (not illegally though!) I do archaeological illustration, and would love to try getting some of my work onto the PC - for 3D rendering and the like We are talking scale drawings of artefacts and site plans, so if you have any suggestions I would be grateful. I can't afford to run out and buy the latest software

[/)eathKiller]

Sketching comes to me rather naturally and I dont use a sketchpad.... I think that if you click and drag with the wrist on a mouse as small as the one on an old iMac you can easily mimick the motion of a pen.. quite easily in my opion... perhaps you find it all very hard to use mice to draw but just look at what I did on my G3 laptop while typing this with my left hand [img]smile.gif[/img]

Stick two forks in me cuz im ambidextrouse... and umm done sketching lol...
That was quite fun to do actually, took a bit of concentration lol... I prefer to make smoothe single lines rather than rough sketches... I think that was rather Digi-Charrat inspired don't you?
I was listening to this song at the time too So the inspiration didn't come from the music... hmmm i dunnow where,i just moved my hands and an image from my subconceouse came out...

[Epona]

Hey, that's a great picture! You have a real talent there!

However freehand doesn't cut it if you're doing draughting rather than art My drawings need to be exact, accurate, and to scale.

[ 04-16-2002, 08:02 PM: Message edited by: Epona ]

[adam warlock]

I'm a tablet-worshipper... I use it so much that I often tried to 'write' on the piece of paper with my wacom pen

I found mine from a reliable seller at ebay.com for $100 less than the site but I'm certain if you search through google.com you'll find many sources. [img]smile.gif[/img]

here's piece of work I did for a friend of mine with my tablet


a free cookie to anyone who figure who this person in the pic is

[ 04-16-2002, 11:07 PM: Message edited by: adam warlock ]