/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3210202
From using the QHD (still waiting for a buyer~) I'm very hesitant to compare drawing on a Cintiq to drawing traditionally. There's a distinct parallax between where the mouse cursor ends up and where your stylus is placed on the monitor thanks to the thick glass, so to get a truly good idea of what you're actually doing you have to maneuver your head around like the snake monster Vertigo from Primal Rage. That's why in most of the screenshots or videos where people are using a Cintiq you see them looking down their stylus like it's the barrel of a gun, but the only thing they're shooting is themselves in the foot.

I recently purchased a Surface 4 as a gift for somebody I'm working on a project with (assuming they don't flake on my ass) so they can draw at work, but trying it out for myself I'm very disappointed. The parallax, subtle though it is, is murder when you're used to none, there's also a perceptible input delay (I'm using the top shelf model) that doesn't actually affect anything, but it's a topical annoyance. The screen is very slick and that coupled with the aforementioned parallax and ergonomic issues it's difficult to put any given line where you want it to go.

It's just hard to work comfortably on it too, you either have to lurch over it with it lying flat on your desk or table (and you better be a long-neck-nigga if have that keyboard plugged in) or you can have it sitting in some kind of hybrid position at an angle and draw like that, using the free hand you'd normally have on your hotkeys or keyboard clasping the entire device in place so that you don't end up pushing it around your desk with the slightest application of pressure due to how light it is.

It is less comfortable, less precise, and simply a much less effective tool than even a skeptic like myself thought it would be-and if I hadn't gotten it off of craigslist it would have cost close to $2,000. I feel it's one of my worst purchasing decisions to date. It would perhaps be effective for doing those kinds of labor-intensive and time-consuming things that don't require freehand drawing per se such as lineart inking and rendering but there's no way I would recommend this thing as a drawing tool when you can do so much better not only for the money, but in general.

Get an Intuos Large. Don't kid yourself; buying something like this will not suddenly turn you into some sort of digital open-air artist begging to get mugged by moulinyans the second he steps off his stoop.

>>2800280
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