/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.1983306]

Is it time?

[Anonymous No.1983307]

Long past time bud. There's a tutorial floating this week on making your own nibs, check the catalog

[Anonymous No.1983327]

Go to a jeweler and have them make a glass nib. Wacom Jews have got to be stopped.

[Anonymous No.1983331]

>>1983327
that sounds uber hispter, is it actually legit to have custom glass made nib replacement workin well?

[Anonymous No.1983337]

Did you guys actually "finish" all of your nibs? Because I'm still using my first one and I have plenty leftovers.

[Anonymous No.1983344]

>>1983337
You're not trying hard enough to carve through your tablet. Think of pumpkins & halloween when you're drawing

[Anonymous No.1983345]

>>1983306
i have one that looks like exploded shrapnel. I wanted to keep using it, but it wasn't eroding down anymore.

[Anonymous No.1983357]

>>1983344
My stomach hurts from laughing, thanks for that

[Anonymous No.1983394]

I went through about five nibs in the first couple of years of Wacom ownership, then lightened the fuck up on the pen/tweaked the pressure response, got better results and I'm on the same nib 3 years later...

[Anonymous No.1983406]

>>1983337
hey, man, with 512 levels of pressure, I gotta make sure I use them all

[Anonymous No.1983432]

Just use a spaghetti nib. You can get thousands of them with less then 1$.

[Anonymous No.1983444]

>>1983432
tell your customers that the artwork they comissioned was made using spagetti

[Anonymous No.1983451]

>>1983432
Don't those break really easily?

[Anonymous No.1983460]

>>1983451
you need to buy decent brand spagetti dude. not some chinese ripoffs...

[Anonymous No.1983489]

Whoa whoa whoa, hold on a second. I'm supposed to replace the nibs?

I've been using this tablet for like, 4 years, and never replace any nibs! Holy shit this explains why sometimes the pen slices through the tablet like a sword on a shield or some shit.

Anybody got a pic of old nib/new nib comparison, I want to know what a new one looks like.

[Anonymous No.1983491]

this fucking thread has me in stitches

[Anonymous No.1983494]

>>1983432
what if you crack the spaghetti off and then you cant get it out? do you need to buy a new pen?

[Anonymous No.1983495]

>>1983494

Put the tip, only the tip, in hot water for a few minutes. The spaghetti will soften and drop out of the nib-hole.

[Anonymous No.1983498]

>>1983495
put some ketchup on it and you can slurp that shit right out of the pen.

[Anonymous No.1983499]

>>1983494
The shorter the spaghetti is, the more unlikely it is to crack. Just try it, break a spaghetti into a very tiny piece and try to break that piece too. You can't. Under the right conditions spaghetti is one of the hardest materials known to man.

[Anonymous No.1983500]

>>1983494
you can just use a magnet to get it out

[Anonymous No.1983501]

>>1983498
I'd rather not put my mouth on the nib-hole, though

[Anonymous No.1983502]

mfw this thread is spagetti

[Anonymous No.1983504]

stop calling it a nib-hole, it sounds fucking disgusting

[Anonymous No.1983506]

>>1983504
your a nibhole!

[Anonymous No.1983507]

My nib's worn down and has a sharp edge too
How badly can it damage the tablet like that?
I've heard you should keep it as rounded as possible

[Anonymous No.1983508]

>>1983489
>Anybody got a pic of old nib/new nib comparison, I want to know what a new one looks like.
A new tip looks like half a sphere - perfectly round, smooth and symmetrical. An old tip will look worn out like a chisel, and it will likely have flat planes or sharp edges to it. Probably what your tip should look like by now.

If you run your finger over the tip and it feels sharp, then you need to change it. If it slices your tablet then you need to change it. The pen came with replacement tips if you bought it new.

[Anonymous No.1983509]

>>1983504
but it is a hole. what else would he call it?

[Anonymous No.1983511]

I believe most of you know this but I'm going to mention it anyway: some tablets come with replacement nibs, they're inside the pen holder.

[Anonymous No.1983514]

>>1983432
how do you feel about having residue spaghetti all over your tablet?

[Anonymous No.1983521]

>>1983508
I see, I guess I need a replacement then.

>>1983511
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT SPINS OPEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS A SECRET COMPARTMENT ALL THIS TIME AND I...
...
...
...

There's nothing inside.

What the fuck.

[Anonymous No.1983524]

>>1983521
sounds like you got ripped off, fucker

[Anonymous No.1983525]

>>1983521
How's the Vietnamese bootleg going for you? I think it's great considering it was made by starving children.

[Anonymous No.1983526]

>>1983521
For the intuos 3 the nibs came in the same packaging that had the pen. Check that unless you bought your tablet used.

[Anonymous No.1983527]

>>1983526

It's an old model of Wacom Bamboo. It's been years I have no idea where the packaging went. Maybe I was ripped off, maybe not.

[Anonymous No.1983540]

What's with those round styli

[Anonymous No.1983542]

What's with those round Wacom Stylii I keep seeing on ebay?

[Anonymous No.1983543]

>>1983527
Check your model at online retailers like amazon and see what they list should be included in the box. I'm surprised that you have the pen stand at all if you have a bamboo, as last I checked that only came with intuos and cintiq lines.

[Anonymous No.1983545]

>>1983542
Those are for use with capacitive screens like ipads.

[Anonymous No.1983547]

>>1983542
they're usually for touch-displays and not very accurate

[Anonymous No.1983566]

>>1983543
>I'm surprised that you have the pen stand at all if you have a bamboo

I meant that thing at the top of the image. I don't if it's a stand, but it does spin open for some reason. It has a magnet on the bottom, I think.

[Anonymous No.1983596]

>>1983566
Gotcha. Worse case is to find nibs online (wacom's site, possibly ebay if you're lucky), or make your own nibs. There's an image guide floating around for making them out of some sort of fishing line (?), and they're supposedly a near perfect fit.

[Anonymous No.1983627]

my nib is half that size and I haven't even considered replacing it. I wear them down to tiny nubbins. seems to work fine.

[Anonymous No.1983720]

>>1983511
Found this out after I wore down my first nib, was so happy.

[Anonymous No.1983937]

>>1983489
Oh boy. That sounds EXACTLY like my post when I figured it out. Pic related is what I posted.
Now that I took a look it's probably time to change it again.

>>1983327
>>1983331
Please someone give feedback on that.
Isn't the glass nib too hard on the surface?

[Anonymous No.1984194]

>>1983306
Before I knew the stand comes with secret nibs I cut a toothpick, put it in the nib hole and have been using those ever since.

[Anonymous No.1984211]

>>1983306

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/NEW-10PCS-REPLACEMENT-PEN-BLACK-NIBS-FOR-WACOM-BAMBOO-CTE-MTE-CTL-CTH-MODELS/1823022658.html

here you go anon! i mean in case you need more.

[Anonymous No.1985281]

I've found that a small twig that I smoothed out works the best

[Anonymous No.1985483]

mine looked like that, i just filed it down and rubbed it on my jeans. i threw out the pen holder cause i keep my pen in a box, son of a bitch

[Anonymous No.1985493]

>>1983337
tfw also still on my first nip but misplaced my stylus case and will become screwed when I'll need replacements

[Anonymous No.1985523]

>>1983495
>>1983498

[Anonymous No.1985524]

>>1983504
A-Anon-kun put it in my nibhole~

[Anonymous No.1985527]

>>1983596
I actually ordered replacement nibs off of amazon for relatively cheap.

[Anonymous No.1985532]

>>1985493
you do realize that you can buy replacement nibs right?

[Anonymous No.1985533]

>>1983495
fuck no, it'll rust the spring.

[Anonymous No.1985541]

>>1984211

>10 for 10$

Chinaman is ripping people off here big time.

Here's 50 for 15$.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/wacom-bamboo-graphic-drawing-pad-standard-black-pen-nibs-50pieces-lot/1469205005.html

Fuck, just go and buy a spool of some plastic filament and chop your own nibs.
You'll probably get thousands of nibs from pic related and it costs like 20$

[Anonymous No.1985603]

>>1983504
Put it in her nib hole

[Anonymous No.1985627]

>>1985532
D: YEAH I GUESS, but, I'd rather try and find my case. It's somewhere in my dumb room, I know it!

[Anonymous No.1985675]

>>1985541
makerbot is a rip off ($45-$60?), any other filament is cheaper

What you really need to do is get a 3D printer and print new nibs with said filament...

[Anonymous No.1985724]

What is the purpose of a nib?

[Anonymous No.1985726]

>>1985724
it's like a stylus's clit

[Anonymous No.1986019]

What went wrong with n-trig?

[Anonymous No.1986168]

>>1983511
while we're on the subject. I found this one out 2 weeks ago.

The groove allows you to fit the pen vertically. So you can play vidya or watch chinese cartoons or post on 4chan instead. I don't recommend putting spaghetti in your nibhole.

[Anonymous No.1986171]

>>1986168
>vertically
Man I always fuck that up. I meant horizontally.

[Anonymous No.1986174]

>>1986168
What is the relationship between a horizontal pen and using the computer?

[Anonymous No.1986175]

>>1983306

Yesterday I dreamed that my nib was all wasted, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

[Anonymous No.1986178]

>>1986175
>Yesterday I dreamed that my nibhole was all wasted

does that mean im gay?

[Anonymous No.1986179]

>>1986174
nothing honestly. i have the holder in my eye site, if i put the pen in it blocks the screen.

sorry for projecting!

[Anonymous No.1986229]

>>1986175
The nib is a metaphor for your creativity. You're done man - give up art.

[Anonymous No.1986264]

>>TIL tablet styluses can wear away

[Anonymous No.1987456]

>>1983511

Holy fucking shit

I had no freaking idea

Thank you so much

[Anonymous No.1987499]

OP here, I think I'll wait till next year.

[Anonymous No.1987508]

i use a yiynova monitor, its low tier in most regards but i must say its been a year and the nib is not worn in the slightest

[/loomis/ No.1987525]

>>1983306

If you have an Intuos4 or above get a "POSRUS" tablet surface cover on amazon (or elsewhere). They're like 10 bucks (which is shit load of money for a fucking piece of plastic with glue on it, mind) but they'll save you so much money in the long run nigga, trust. When I wasn't using one my nib "went out" on that grainy-ass surface they use now (or rather I could hear an audible scratching sound when using it and it looked like shit like yours does) in like two weeks and I wasn't even drawing very often at the time. Now I've been using the same nib for ever without any noticeable wear. You could probably make one yourself relatively inexpensively, too.

[Anonymous No.1987581]

Ok. Seriously now... is this a massive troll/ic meme thread?

Because I bought my intuos3 in 2008 and have been using the very same nib since - it's only recently I've seen these nib threads popping up more and more. I primarily work in 3D though and rarely use high pressure strokes. I heard that intuos4 has a problem due to it's more paper-like texture, but honestly i've never replaced this thing.

[Anonymous No.1987806]

>>1987581
Intuos 3 had a better surface for nib longevity. If you're using one of the smoothest tablet surfaces out there, and use very little pressure, then the nib should last a long time. If you're using one of the coarser models, draw with a lot of pressure, and use it 5+ hours a day, then that nib will wear out in no time at all.

[/loomis/ No.1987844]

>>1987581
The Intuos 4 models and above have a grainy surface that wacom says is meant to better simulate natural media but in reality all it really does is grind your stylus nibs down and QUICK. It's planned obsolescence masquerading as a feature. If you use a native Intuos 4/5 without a surface cover of some sort as I'd alluded to here >>1987525 you're looking at a substantive investment in nibs over time. When I first got my Intuos 5 medium I went through several nibs in short order despite not drawing a whole lot during that period. Since I've gotten a surface cover I haven't gone through a single one.