tablets

[lordnacho]

I would like to get back into cartooning and thought a tablet would encourage me.
I see everyone talk about Wacom's, what sizes do people have...ok that sounded weird :smirk: are the small ones worth the money?

[Jubba]

yeah the smallest is 100 and thats really all you need. Anything bigger is helpful but not needed...

[RenaissanceGirl]

It's worth every penny...

I have a Graphire and a 6x8 Intuos. The Intuos is more pressure sensitive and produces smoother lines but the Graphire is more than sufficient for cartooning purposes.

[lordnacho]

So, the graphire's only come in 4x5?

At work there's a 12x18 collecting dust, I'll have to see if I can make an offer on it.

[mdipi]

i have a G2 4x5 and love it, all you need, you just have to pick your pen up sometimes...

[LoungeActx]

i just picked up a wacom graphire 2...it works great...

here is something i drew in illustrator, and imported into photoshop for the color...

http://kahuna.hartford.edu/~jcochran/butterfly.jpg

[mdipi]

probs lounge

[LoungeActx]

i got my graphire for a little under a $100, not bad, and i use it all the time!

thanks!:P

[Shazmax]

Another thing you should look into getting...if you draw a lot and use Illustrator a lot also is Adobe's Streamline.
http://www.adobe.com/products/streamline/main.html
What it does it takes the scanned image and transforms it into illustrator - cuts down a lot of work sometimes. Other times you still have to hand clean your design.