Question to other Wacom users:

[Tsyr]

Is there a good *sketching* program out there for tablets?

I'm good with a pencil... But when I try to get too digital, my art starts to suck. My stuff looks better in a sketchy format. But it's hard to scan in a sketch. And I just got a nice new Wacom Intuos2 6x8, (My old Graphire had an accident involving my chair, the floor, the wheels on my chair, and my fat arse the other day... And *before* that, I had lost the Stylus anyhow [Which was why the tablet wasn't on my desk where it normaly is]), and I thought I'd ask if anyone knows it there is a good program for making sketchy type illustrations on the computer?

 

[BenPowis]

Hey Tsyr,
I quite like the way the way painter classics pencil tool works. Painter classice came free with my WACOM and I occasioanly use it for conceptualizing pieces because I find its tools more 'lose'.

Oh aye, and theres this program caled Open Canvas, the older version had a pencil similar to painter, and it has layers too. And best of all its free might be hard to get hold of it thou since they have a newer comerical version out now. If you want it ill help you out, just let me know (ben@shadowcavern.net).

But at the end of the day for sketching pretty much anything is okay...voila!

 

[Tsyr]

Hey Tsyr,
I quite like the way the way painter classics pencil tool works. Painter classice came free with my WACOM and I occasioanly use it for conceptualizing pieces because I find its tools more 'lose'.

Oh aye, and theres this program caled Open Canvas, the older version had a pencil similar to painter, and it has layers too. And best of all its free might be hard to get hold of it thou since they have a newer comerical version out now. If you want it ill help you out, just let me know (ben@shadowcavern.net).

But at the end of the day for sketching pretty much anything is okay...voila!

I think it comes with my Intuos2 too... But I don't have it yet (It's in lansing at an UPS station for the weekend... stupid easter ), so I don't know much about Painter.

I have openCanvas 2.4 commercial... It's what I used with my old wacom... But I was never able to configure a pencil quite the way I wanted it. Can you give me any suggestions for a configuration for a pencil to make it work more like a real pencil and less like a sharpie marker?

 

[BenPowis]

Nothing I can suggest, im not that flash :/

I dont find it that bad for what I use it for...if you want somthing more like a pencil maybe just try...a pencil

Sorry I cant be of more help.

 

[Kilmore]

Okay, I figure I gots to have me one of these newfangled gadgets. There's a few different brands out there, but I keep hearing the Wacom Intuos mentioned as the best tablet around, at least under a couple hundred bucks.

Should I not even consider anything else? Do I want that stripped down Painter as well?

 

[Kryndal Levik]

Get a Wacom- I don't know of another brand that's as dependable (or as widely supported). I've got an Intuos 2, and absolutely love it.

 

[Tsyr]

You won't get an Intuos2 for under a couple hundred bucks, except maybe off Ebay or something... the 4x5 start at 190 dollars, the 6x8 is 350 (Got mine for 300 off pricewatch.com), and they go all the way up to almost 800 for the 12x18 ones.

Then they have the Cintiq line... which are basicly a second monitor that is touch sensative, so you can draw right on on it. Those start at 1800.

The only ones you can get for ~100 dollars (Or less, on pricewatch) are the Graphire2 line. They don't have the resolution or sensativity of the Intuos line (512 levels of pressure sensativity, verses the 1000+ of the Intuos), they won't use other styluses than the one they come with (The Intuos line you can buy other types for... ones to simulate air brush grips, etc), and they only come in one size... 4x5. They still are pretty good, though.

Check it out on wacom.com

 

[Kilmore]

Actually, Pricewatch.com does have the smaller one for less than two bills. I'm afraid that's all my budget will allow.

A Cintiq would be nice, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.

 

[Tsyr]

Actually, Pricewatch.com does have the smaller one for less than two bills. I'm afraid that's all my budget will allow.

A Cintiq would be nice, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.

Those look like the Graphire line... If you click to the next page, they show an Intuos for 160 or so.

Mind you, the Graphire line is *just fine*. Don't get me wrong. If it wasn't that I had a bit of money I'd been looking to spend, I would have just gotten another Graphire myself.

 

[BenPowis]

The Graphire is perfect for people who havnt used a WACOM before, go for it!