/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7016371
It's not your fault, King. There are a lot of youtube influencers and people that just don't know any better who say ignorant stuff like "it doesn't matter". But that's retarded, and that tablet is retarded. You deserve something better.

I would not necessarily recommend >>7016385 as it has an 8 x 5 active area but I won't dismiss it outright either. I don't doubt its adequacy in the sense that I know some very strong artists that use the 8 x 6 Intuos Medium tablets-and my experience with the closely-related Deco Pro V2 was not altogether unpleasant, however, the best move for the long trem is to spend the extra money for the biggest model you can comfortably afford, with the understanding that what you buy now will likely last you the next five years minimum. Short of an Intuos 3, 4, 5 or Pro Large, the Intuos 3 PTZ-631W (11 x 6) compares favorably to a large tablet (dropping roughly 10% accuracy) and is very space-efficient with regards to its footprint.

>>6986214
You misunderstand, it's just a comparison I'm making using a tool most of us should be familiar with; when you use a small tablet it's very similar to having your mouse's pointer sensitivity turned very high, with each incremental increase in sensitivity and acceleration it becomes more and more difficult to put your cursor where you want it to go without perhaps several corrections. On a small tablet you move your stylus two inches and it's suddenly 1/3rd of the way across your 20+ inch screen horizontally, that is not easily manageable when it comes to drawing-especially for a /beg/-who are incidentally the target audience for these ill-conceived devices.

This is why I'm so adamant about the idea of people abandoning the idea of a "beginner tablet", there really is no such thing. Should a "beginner" be saddled with something that is objectively more difficult to draw with?

Of course not (but neither should an advanced artist), we're mincing over a few hundred dollars-if that-when it's many years of artistic struggle we're talking about-let's not further burden ourselves with a poor tool on top of that.

>>6965155
>cheapskate
You're in luck my friend, literally everything from the model you posted to the model anon responded to you with is cheap as shit considering:

1. It can often be resold quickly for 70+% of its value years later on facebook marketplace, craigslist or your regional equivalent if you so choose
2. Drawing is a lifetime commitment, $500 or $5000 makes little difference over even 2-3 years (obviously it's okay to be thrifty, but just don't be a pussy and buy something shitty you're going to be stuck with for the rest of your natural life without some epiphany occurring-like you did when you bought that thing in your picture)
3. I've already posted the best options in this thread here (>>6964730), 3 out of the 4 are under $200 and they're all better than using a screen and developing scoliosis or tennis elbow. Paisan, you're so close to salvation, don't mess it up by falling for the screen meme.

>>6956875
>there's no real reason to buy an intuos 3 20 years after it was released. The only people that still use them basically do because it's what they learned to draw on and are set in their ways, or because they're cheap as dirt.

I'd explained this in the other thread, but I'll summarize here: there is essentially no major difference between the Intuos 3 and current generation Intuos, though they are far more durable. The only things that have changed over the years are the hotkey layout (which admittedly sucks balls on the 3), wireless capability, hypothetical pressure sensitivity, and on the 3 the dimensions are a little askew because it was released when CRTs were still common. According to my tool-assisted tests the 3 is about 5-6% less "accurate" than a current gen in the same class as consequence (for reference, that disparity is about 35% between a same gen medium and large)

I'll post a couple comparison pics.

>honestly fucking massive though

Even the biggest ones have much smaller active areas than most screen tablets. They don't make you use your arm any more than those. The only real concern is: will it fit on your desk? It's at this point you have to ask, is your desk for getting work done or for displaying your stuff?

I'm cooking something up, I need to get a few of the non-Wacom models as well though [again] (I gave away my Huion WH1409 and H610)