Well, on monday i went ahead and decided that i was going to invest in a new Intuos 3 tablet as well as buy Painter IX (Corel offers a nice package of the two, and they shipped same day - ordered monday, had it wednesday. :). After fiddling around with the trial version for a while (and being impressed with how much better it was than version 
i decided to take the plunge and upgrade. Now, the Intuos 3 are supposed to have better resolution, sensitivity and feel than the Intuos 2 (it is a newer generation tablet, after all) and i wondered if it would finally be sensitive enough to work with the way i tend to sketch and draw. I could never get the settings quite right on the Intuos2.
The Intuos 3 really is a very pretty tablet - it almost looks like its made of plate glass, not that purple plastic matt finish the intuos2 has. The pen is so much nicer… much more comfortable, at least for me. That alone is enough to make it worth the upgrade. How was it at sketching, at least, for me? Not bad, actually. For the first time i think i feel comfortable sketching on the computer - and that sketch of largo is just in photohshop using a pretty basic brush.
anyways, tons to do today, and i still am not really feeling all that great. Depending on how this afternoon goes, i might adjust the schedule to put out the comic by noon tomorrow rather than 1am tonight - it all depends on how well the scripting goes. Colds suck, they really do.
- pirotunes: Global Communication - Delta Phase -
That’s a verry good sketch for on done straight onto the computer (al least, mine never turn out even half as good as the ones I do on paper anyway) maybe it because I’m using older stuff,,, Wacom tablet and Painter Classic (which isn’t working properly, but I feel that that’s because it wasn’t properly installed, and now just won’t install…)
I wanna Mac… ¬.¬
wow… you’re right… it is a pretty nice bundle… Too bad I used up the money I saved for the past three years on my Ipod *hell, it was worth it*.
Anyways, the Intuos 3 does seem to work pretty nicely, but that may be because you draw so well anyway :-p.
I don’t have any tablets, so I keep killing trees… with bad sketches…
Really bad.
LOL cant be any worse than mine kane…bleh. I’ve been wanting to start a webcomic for the past three years… I have a Wacom Graphire tablet, teh cheapy. I dont know if its the tablet or Painter…but I cant seem to get it to draw unshabby lines. It’s like it gets shakey after a few min…hrm. anyway, good luck with the new tab Fred! ^_^
Well, this doesn’t have anything to do with your post, but I just wanted to comment about how awesome Global Communication is and that it’s cool you enjoy their work. Have you checked out the Irresistible Force or Future Sound of London?
First time post, long time admirer. It just struck me as very strange that we purchased the exact same piece of hardware within days of each other–although actually I’m betting you got a larger size, now that I think about it. I’m really impressed with how well you were able to draw with it–I plan on using mine mostly for coloring stuff drawn the old fashioned way. Knowing an experienced computer and art specialist selected the same equipment I did makes me feel better about the investment.
Anyway, keep up the great work!