/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

there's a lot of talk of tablets, but not much about pens. which functions do you guys map to your buttons? what is your opinion of having an eraser on the back?

for me, i have one button mapped to change temporarily to the color picker, and the other temporarily changes to the pan tool. for everything else i use a tabmate for shortcuts.

i've never owned a pen with an eraser but i feel like it would be annoying and if i did have it, i wouldn't use it. if i had to turn the pen around in my hand every time i wanted to erase, that would slow me down and get in the way.

also what do you do about parallax? i've heard cintiqs are good, but due to the design of the old 2.0 huion pen there is pretty bad parallax when you tilt the pen at all. if you want the cursor to stay exactly under the nib from where you've calibrated it, you'd have to always hold the pen in the exact same way. some people can do this, i can't, so i just calibrate it to have the cursor to the left of the nip a couple millimeters. i've tried holding it straight up and down all the time to keep it directly under the nib but i've found that it actually gets in the way and i can't see precisely where the cursor is, so having it offset gives you more precision in a way since nothing is blocking the view of the cursor.