I Need A Drawing Tablet
 

i'm finally gonna buy one.

i'm gonna mainly be making logos, and some small toons for my sites.

i'm looking at the wacom intuos2 platinum 6x8

gimme the good and bad on this.



and would you reccomend something else?

those are nice, i was just looking at them myself. those are the 189-199 ones right? actually i think that price is for the 4x5's

the price i see now is $280, but i need to do some research. i have no idea what they go for, so i wanna make sure i get a good tablet

i do design for a living and i dont really see a need to go for the 6x8... a 4x5 would do just fine for what i'd need it for. at the local frys electronic store here... the 4x5's are priced at 189.00. when i go get my new desktop this week, i plan on picking one of those up

for now, all i wanna do is make my logos more professional, but i wanna keep my touch to them. so i need to figure out what size would suit me.


later on, i may get into doing some detailed toon work, since i used to be into drawing comicbook characters, but now i wanna incorporate that into web applications

go for it man... lemme know how it works out for you. i'll be in the market for one soon so i'd definitely like to know what your experiences are.

I got a used one that works fine...wanna buy it?

how do you like it? and why get rid of it?

I got a wacom tablet when they first came out, and I just couldn't get used to the darn thing.. I finally went back to the mouse and scanning drawings. I know some people love them.. but it just wan't for me I guess

my problem is that i cant draw for shit with a mouse, and as for scanning, i'm ok with it.

but i wanna draw my stuff directly, so that i can save time.:)

i threw away my mouse and do everything with the pen..it's a great tool and has a much more natural feel to it then a mouse
(you just click by tapping the pen)

I have a graphire... works pretty well. I'm not really sure a bigger tablet is necessarily better... you have to hold the bugger after all :)

and it's cheaper.

I'm also using it instead of the mouse. Bye bye RSI!

Pretty much any wacom tablet will work fine, especially if your only doing logos and some cartooning. (if you want to see some fucking amazing digital painting check out this board. I got my tablet new for about $80. I'm thinking about getting a larger one sometime in the next year. In the end, its your own skill thats going to make the biggest difference, not the specific model or size. (as long as its a wacom.. I've never heard any artist say anything good about other brands)

i've been planning on buying one of those for weeks now. but i keep on forgetting it when i went to the mall.. :(

i do design but i'm not used to work with pen tablet coz i still do my drawings in freehand.. but i'll still going to buy those for coloring purposes. :winkwink:

Wacom's Cintiq 18SX
http://www.wacom.com/lcdtablets/imag...Cintiq18SX.jpg
that's what ya want right there.

I have a Wacom Intuos 2 and it kicks ass!!