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Testing out my new Wacom Cintiq 21UX with some scribbles!
OH GOD THE SMOOTHNESS of lineart/pen/thingy/line. Can't wait to scan in some actual work and spend hours and hours playing with this thing. but it's 2am and I'm living off 5 hours of sleep so I won't do that now.
But yay. Going to be drawing more personal anthro related art during downtime from thesis. So hopefully more of this Husky Shepherd muttface up in hurrr.
(and man, I need to get used to actually keeping my pen on the page. I'm so used to using short strokes to build up lines with my old intuos tablet, that I constantly had to stop and think about how I was using this thing. BUT SO AWESOME.)
Art © meeeee.
OH GOD THE SMOOTHNESS of lineart/pen/thingy/line. Can't wait to scan in some actual work and spend hours and hours playing with this thing. but it's 2am and I'm living off 5 hours of sleep so I won't do that now.
But yay. Going to be drawing more personal anthro related art during downtime from thesis. So hopefully more of this Husky Shepherd muttface up in hurrr.
(and man, I need to get used to actually keeping my pen on the page. I'm so used to using short strokes to build up lines with my old intuos tablet, that I constantly had to stop and think about how I was using this thing. BUT SO AWESOME.)
Art © meeeee.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Doodle
Species Dog (Other)
Size 480 x 699px
File Size 97.2 kB
Oh lucky, tell me about the Cintuq! I was debating between the Cintiq12 or Intuos4, since I was looking for a smaller tablet than my old Intuos3 9x12 was, but I realized the Cintiq12 only had 1024 levels of sensitivity while the new Intuos4 had like twice as much. I'm picky on sensitivity because I had trouble downgrading from my Intuos3 to my ModBook--which was only 512 levels. Then I saw that the Cintiq21 had the higher sensitivity but the price was prohibitive for me and the size.. yikes. I mean even the 12 was much but damn. :/ I DO miss drawing on screen though!
MOAR ARTZ.
MOAR ARTZ.
It is awesome. I'm still trying to get used to it, but easy to jump into and create something simple right away. To create the same doodle using my Intuos3, it would've taken twice as long because of how annoying digital lineart was to create on it (draw line, undo, redraw line, undo, redraw line... undo, etc.) I'm still trying to get used to actually keeping the pen on the tablet, with my small Intuos3, I was so used to using a bunch of short strokes to build up a line, so on this one I have to constantly remind myself that it's okay to draw long lines with one stroke. I played around with a painting I had going as well, and once I set up all the buttons, it's just... so great. The sensitivity is definitely the first thing I noticed between my intuos 3 (5x7 I think) and this Cintiq, the line quality in Photoshop is definitely better now... not that I had a problem with it before, I just never imagined it could get better. I already thought the jump from Graphire3 to the Intuos3 was pretty good :P So it's definitely something I'm excited to have and start working on, working on the screen is just... so convenient.
The price is definitely an ouch on this one, my entire family up to my grandparents pitched together to get this as a graduation gift, so I now owe it to them to become the best artist I can and build a career around it. It's also yeah, massive, and heavyish at 22 pounds. It eats up a good chunk of my desk when stored aside, but I'll work on figuring that out later.
I'd wait and listen for news on a possible update to the 12WX or something, these things are definitely great. :)
The price is definitely an ouch on this one, my entire family up to my grandparents pitched together to get this as a graduation gift, so I now owe it to them to become the best artist I can and build a career around it. It's also yeah, massive, and heavyish at 22 pounds. It eats up a good chunk of my desk when stored aside, but I'll work on figuring that out later.
I'd wait and listen for news on a possible update to the 12WX or something, these things are definitely great. :)
Wow! Thanks so much for the detailed reply, and I agree, what a wonderful gift your family rallied to get for you and I would feel that same need to be as great as I could with it. Over Christmas my grandpa gave me enough $ to buy a MacBook Pro AND an Intuos4 Medium so now I am determined to figure out CS5 and start doing art again, no matter how slow I am.
22lb is HEAVY, what comes with it to make it like that? I imagine it was a slim, thin flatscreen like TV thing for your lap! I do miss drawing on screen though, for real. And yeah Photoshop for me is like NOT what I do lines in, always find them icky and artifact-y when zoomed but I don't know how to make vectors and don't have Illustrator, haha, figures.
I'm so glad you got one though, maybe one day when I have my own home or condo and a REAL workstation I can invest in one, provided I deserve it by actually doing art and my photography! <3
I can't wait to see more art from you! If you don't mind, would you perhaps post a few tips or techniques you used to make your digital pieces when you upload? I love to see or hear how others work.
22lb is HEAVY, what comes with it to make it like that? I imagine it was a slim, thin flatscreen like TV thing for your lap! I do miss drawing on screen though, for real. And yeah Photoshop for me is like NOT what I do lines in, always find them icky and artifact-y when zoomed but I don't know how to make vectors and don't have Illustrator, haha, figures.
I'm so glad you got one though, maybe one day when I have my own home or condo and a REAL workstation I can invest in one, provided I deserve it by actually doing art and my photography! <3
I can't wait to see more art from you! If you don't mind, would you perhaps post a few tips or techniques you used to make your digital pieces when you upload? I love to see or hear how others work.
Don't worry about being fast/slow, you don't want to work so hard that you burn yourself out. As long as you're having fun getting back into it, that's all that matters :)
As for the heaviness, the 21" Cintiq just comes with a stand and the screen, I haven't taken it apart or moved it anywhere else since setting it up, but I think most of the weight in this one is in the screen. The stand has some weight to it, but when I went to lift the screen out of the box, I had to put it down and plan how I was going to move it up on to my desk and on to its stand without dropping it or bumping it into something. It's pretty big. It's 21" of screen, plus the border/room for buttons and things, and the screen is about 2" thick at the very middle, it gradually thins out towards the edges of the tablet. I haven't tried it out on my lap or anything yet, it sounds doable, but it's definitely not too portable. It's got a mass of cables coming out the back end too rather than the top, my Mac looks like it's on lifesupport after plugging in everything...
ugh, Illustrator. Illustrator is just one of those programs my school has tried forcing on me time and time again, but I can't get around to liking it. It's just too... much like a program, and when I use my tablet, it gets even more annoying to try and use. :P I want to know how some of those people get really detailed vectored lineart using it though, because the smoothness of the lines is just gorgeous. But yeah, I know what you mean, zooming in using Photoshop makes things a little pixelated and difficult to draw lines with, especially details (you zoom in and assume everything is the right size and visible, zoom out, and it's a mess of black line), but funny enough, for some reason, I don't work as zoomed in as I used to when I use my Cintiq. Maybe it's because I have more control over my drawing, and zoomed out is practically almost like working on paper?
Aww, trust me, if there's a digital artist I look up to, it's you! I can definitely seeing you making good use out of a Cintiq! If you do most of your art digitally with tablets, I highly recommend getting one of these when you're ready for one. Even if you think you don't do enough art, I found that getting one has made me want to create more (it's just a pity that it's still all irrelevant school stuff for now). As for tips and techniques, I'm not sure how I would share tips, because sometimes things just create themselves, but yeah, I should post something like that! I think the closest I get to that kind of stuff is piling up screenshots taken over time into one image and uploading that, but even just adding something into the description of each finished piece is definitely something I can do. :3
As for the heaviness, the 21" Cintiq just comes with a stand and the screen, I haven't taken it apart or moved it anywhere else since setting it up, but I think most of the weight in this one is in the screen. The stand has some weight to it, but when I went to lift the screen out of the box, I had to put it down and plan how I was going to move it up on to my desk and on to its stand without dropping it or bumping it into something. It's pretty big. It's 21" of screen, plus the border/room for buttons and things, and the screen is about 2" thick at the very middle, it gradually thins out towards the edges of the tablet. I haven't tried it out on my lap or anything yet, it sounds doable, but it's definitely not too portable. It's got a mass of cables coming out the back end too rather than the top, my Mac looks like it's on lifesupport after plugging in everything...
ugh, Illustrator. Illustrator is just one of those programs my school has tried forcing on me time and time again, but I can't get around to liking it. It's just too... much like a program, and when I use my tablet, it gets even more annoying to try and use. :P I want to know how some of those people get really detailed vectored lineart using it though, because the smoothness of the lines is just gorgeous. But yeah, I know what you mean, zooming in using Photoshop makes things a little pixelated and difficult to draw lines with, especially details (you zoom in and assume everything is the right size and visible, zoom out, and it's a mess of black line), but funny enough, for some reason, I don't work as zoomed in as I used to when I use my Cintiq. Maybe it's because I have more control over my drawing, and zoomed out is practically almost like working on paper?
Aww, trust me, if there's a digital artist I look up to, it's you! I can definitely seeing you making good use out of a Cintiq! If you do most of your art digitally with tablets, I highly recommend getting one of these when you're ready for one. Even if you think you don't do enough art, I found that getting one has made me want to create more (it's just a pity that it's still all irrelevant school stuff for now). As for tips and techniques, I'm not sure how I would share tips, because sometimes things just create themselves, but yeah, I should post something like that! I think the closest I get to that kind of stuff is piling up screenshots taken over time into one image and uploading that, but even just adding something into the description of each finished piece is definitely something I can do. :3
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