kain_kusanagi said:
I used your's and another poster's suggestions and it was difficult to make a decission. I finaly decided that I want a display tablet because I want it to be more like drawing on paper. After many reviews I went with the new upgraded Yiynova MSP19U. The reviews are good and the new model has a new digitizer with far better results and support. |
It's hard for me to comment. The videos I've seen for that were a different art style than I am used to painting (cell art), so I couldn't tell you much about the performance given they only had the size tied to the pressure sensitivity and really weren't trying to really render anything... I really very heavily on the pressure sensitivity of my tablet and the responsiveness of the tablet to do the rendering. There have been a lot of non-Wacom tablets creeping up past few years so I know eventually they may have competition... however, I do believe the battery-less pen is patented by Wacom. So I'm not surprised this uses batteries (I looked at the video and saw this).
Concept art sites/art creation communities have also multiplied as well, so definitely there is a grab for that growing popularity. Plenty of art sites trying to bank off of fledging artists/designers who want to be get industry work... but Wacom products are pretty proven... I think they moved their support into China... this is the last I heard but I hope it's not true. Which makes me a little 'meh'. However, pretty much if you need support and are ever worried about your stuff being supported for a long period of time, you don't have to worry about it with their stuff.
I hope it works well, but if it leaves you feel remorse, then don't onto something you can't use longterm. I would look up reviews to how the monitor handles color accuracy as well... this is important when you want to print your work later on. May not matter if you end up replacing it a few years from now, but it's a lot easier to replace a monitor than an entire tablet screen. I would consider joining a site like cghub to put your work up and get critiques... they're not for everybody, but they will introduce you to other styles of painting, different techniques and ways to get stuff to look the way you want... download everything that inspires you, because building that visual vocabulary is very important to making interesting pieces as well as helping you borrow from an internal library.
I will post up some videos that are helpful in the OP. I think everyone is interested in the topic, so I will gather up the resources I've found over the years and put them up...
Edit: I realized my post was sounding Retarded, so I rephrased some parts... I wrote it very quickly, I have a shorter attention span right now.
Of course I am completely distracted by everything at the moment I cannot seem to finish my pie humping an NES painting ><
