Testing me tablet

[TinDragon]

Hi all, I dont tend to do much graphics work on the pc but i recently got a graphics tablet so I have had a go at making a logo. I used a couple tools to get the backgound effect applied after I got the image looking right, wanted a kind of pencilled grafitti look. Hope you like it 

[Shockwave]

Graffiti style

I never used a tablet before, are they expensive?

[TinDragon]

Well they can be, it depends on the make and more importantly the size of tablet, but the small ones start around the £25 mark. Mines about half the size of a A4 page to draw on. The one I got seems pretty decent, my dad has one of the baby wacom ones which I had a play on and decided I should get one, use to draw alot when I was younger but find it bloody hard using a mouse to draw on computer. Having got one its great fun and had some really cool software with it, a cut down version of corel painter, it simulates different types of papers drawing/painting brush's and media. Its real cool

[TinDragon]

The first thing I actually drew with the tablet that I saved was a picture of my cat sleeping, its not very good as I didnt fully grasp what modern paint packages with multiple layers can do or I could have worked on refining my sketch so it was less crude but hey we all start somewhere.

Here's the pic just for the sake of it 

[Shockwave]

Thats a pretty good sketch actually Jon, it has a nice hand drawn blurred look to it.

[zawran]

Not a bad start on your drawings. I have a drawing pad, the smallest Wacom and an older model, but I got it for free, so no complaints there   But I haven't really used it to be honest.

If you are looking to do more artzy drawings you might want to give ArtRage a whirl http://www.artrage.com/ , its an artpackage made specifically for that handpainted looking images. And its not overly expensive either. There is a free version with some limited tool selection.

[TinDragon]

Yeah I have seen artrage, the program I have is like that but has more to it in some respects but less in others. It can simulate pencil,oil,pastel,airbrush etc and the pressure from the pen on the tablet affects how hard or wide etc. the brushs are. It can be a bit wierd sometimes as the brush's catch up to were you have drawn but the results can look like real paintings. Mind I have seen people produce awesome stuff from photoshop CS3 or paintshop pro, I think its more about getting comfortable with the software you have and the tools your using, the tablets can feel very strange to start with but the more you use them the eaiser it gets, or so I am told, I still end up drawing the same line half a dozen times till it looks right but thats an advantage of digital painting, undo aint so easy in the real world