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Some of you know that I have been a fan of IB and many of the artists for some time. I know from experience that drawing on a computer can be problematic and primitive. I also know that many of you produce excellent works in Photoshop and other programs with a drawing tablet of some sort. Many of the MLP artists do well in this fashion. I think I could do similar works with a little practice and would like to, but I don't have a clue what to look for in such devices/software. All I know for sure is I'm on a limited budget, and I draw best on a resistant surface, (such as a pad rather than a single sheet on a hard table). So I am curious what you would suggest as a viable option. This seemed a suitable method to get the word out to as many as possible, so here it is. Thanks, I appreciate it. SS

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Published: 11 years, 9 months ago

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Husky657

11 years, 9 months ago

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Go to New Egg and look at Drawing Tablets. Or even Amazon. Find a good cheap tablet that isn't total crap. If you like what you can do with a tablet, you can eventually look into upgrading. It's like fursuiting almost. Go cheap first, if you don't like it then you didn't waste all that money for something good and expensive, and you always leave yourself open for upgrading if you do like it.

Also, do some research and read up on what you'll be buying.
I found this to be a helpful guide when I was looking to buy my first tablet: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/a/graph...

Husky657

11 years, 9 months ago

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@ Husky657

Oh, and if you have any local friends that use tablets, ask them if you can play around with theirs for a few hours as well. Get a feel for it and see if it's something you truly can get into and do more practicing.

SirStefan02

11 years, 9 months ago

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@ Husky657

Thanks for the initial link. Its a good place to start. :3

moyomongoose

11 years, 9 months ago

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@ SirStefan02

I don't even draw on a computer. Tried it only a few times. I still do it the old fashion way with paints, colored pencil and markers. As for me, I don't think I ever will get use to drawing on a computer. Besides, half the stuff you're talking about, our county doesn't even see untill 5 to10 years after the rest of the world has it. I don't even know what a new egg is. The Japanese public had DVD recorders almost 10 years before anyone here knew what one even was.
You can look at some of my drawings and get an idea of what you think of the results from the way I do it.

Moyomongoose.

moyomongoose

11 years, 9 months ago

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@ SirStefan02

I forgot to ask. You mentioned MLP artists. What is that?

SirStefan02

11 years, 9 months ago

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@ moyomongoose

"My Little Pony". I rather like the bright, somewhat 2D look of that kind of art. That and the Seth McFarlane (Family Guy/American Dad) styles seen on other sites. I have so many ideas I'd like to do with those characters. Thanks to willyd I found GIMP, but I want try animating some ideas of my own so I need a decent drawing tablet where I can produce the additional cells by hand to start with.

RicochetX

11 years, 9 months ago

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Dirt cheapest option: buy a graphics tablet at Monoprice, and download a free copy of Autodesk Sketchbook Copic Edition.

Monoprice tablets are inexpensive (like, 1/4 the price of the Wacom tablets), and are good enough that 3 of the 7 animators at work chose them over the Wacoms, and do all their work with them. Autodesk Sketchbook Copic Edition is free here: http://copic.jp/en/sketchbook-ce.html and has features to simulate Copic markers.

There are a LOT of good art programs out there now, many of which are cheaper and or better than Photoshop for digital drawing.

ObZen

11 years, 9 months ago

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I have a Wacom Intuos 4 as well as a Huion H610 (http://goo.gl/Fd4JB) and can say that the Huion performs almost as well as the Wacom. The only issues you may run into might be driver support in the future. Beyond that I can wholeheartedly recommend the Huion tablet as it met my needs and is cheap enough to replace should something happen to it.

Software options:
http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
http://www.artrage.com/artrage-4.html
http://www.autodesk.com/products/sketchbook-pro/overview

My (and many others') personal top three pieces of software for well under what you'd look to pay for PS. I personally own all three and use them for different things (Sai for vectoring and cell shading and the like, Sketchbook Pro for watercolour and Art Rage for pretty much everything else.)

All that being said, I much prefer using a "slate" PC for my computer work. Even though I've adapted to being able to watch the screen while drawing on a separate surface, there are many instances where drawing directly on the screen is much more advantageous. A bit more initial investment, but the benefits outweigh that in the long run IMO.

SmudgeProof

11 years, 6 months ago

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I use SAI with a Toshiba portege m400 laptop. It has a wacom stylus for it's tablet mode, it's like a really cheap Wacom pen display alternative. (Got mine for about two hundred dollars)

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