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Drawing tablets for a beginner

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hedgie:
Yeah, your cheapest reliable bet for a built-in screen would probably be the cheapest ipad with an apple pencil.  but not having the screen does force one to learn the same techniques one uses when doing the sort of life-drawing where you don't want to be focused down on your paper.  it takes a little while to develop the hand/eye coordination, but it's easy enough to develop.

If you're not planning on spending a lot of money on drawing software, Krita is very nice, and is fully cross-platform, so can be used on windows, mac, or linux.  The webcomic Pepper and Carrot uses it, and has gorgeous art.  I also like how the context menu is actually useful and not mostly get in the way of getting work done.

Gnabberwocky:

--- Quote from: hedgie on 16 Oct 2020, 10:40 ---Yeah, your cheapest reliable bet for a built-in screen would probably be the cheapest ipad with an apple pencil.  but not having the screen does force one to learn the same techniques one uses when doing the sort of life-drawing where you don't want to be focused down on your paper.  it takes a little while to develop the hand/eye coordination, but it's easy enough to develop.

If you're not planning on spending a lot of money on drawing software, Krita is very nice, and is fully cross-platform, so can be used on windows, mac, or linux.  The webcomic Pepper and Carrot uses it, and has gorgeous art.  I also like how the context menu is actually useful and not mostly get in the way of getting work done.

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The Intuos came with a free subscription to Clip Studio Pro, which I think is actually what QC uses. It's not fantastic for museum-quality drawings but it's great for comic art.

hedgie:
Oh, excellent! Been so long since I got mine that I had forgotten about the software bundle

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