![]() Is the difference dramatic?… hard to say as I was pretty good at using the tablet. ![]() It’s just much more intuitive in general to be working on a visual surface. Doing delicate work like adding reflected light along the side of an object also becomes so much easier. The Cintiq sits on a very cool standthat allows for ease of rotation, and adjusts the tilt as well. (I have been told that Painter allows you to rotate the “paper” on the screen, but that’s just another digital way to do what is much easier by hand and eye). I could rotate the tablet, but not the screen, so that made working like that difficult. I like to turn my paper when I draw/paint so I am moving my hand in the most comfortable and controlled direction. Drawing parallel lines for one, as I mentioned before, especially at an angle. More natural feel to drawing and painting– While I quickly got used to not looking at my hands while using the Wacom tablet, there were lots of things that were difficult to do that are so much easier when you are working directly with your hands on the ‘surface’. Does it really save me time? Here are some of the things I think are the most worthy of consideration:ġ. After years of using it, and even upgrading to the Cintiq 21ux, which has 1028 levels of sensitivity and a 1600×1200 resolution screen, there are still pros and cons to the unit. I did it anyway, betting the increased productivity would offset the costs eventually. I had to buy it sight unseen and hope it would work as advertised. Paul carried the item for me to test out. I was hugely expensive at $2500.00 plus for the 18x, and worse yet no one in Minneapolis/St. There were problems with getting the Cintiq, however. I felt like I could gain productivity if I could get a tablet with a screen, so I drew right in the screen and could rotate the screen/tablet for a more natural arm movement.Įnter Wacom’s Cintiq, a screen/tablet combination that was just what I was hoping for. Rotating the tablet would throw the cursors movement out of whack with my arm movement, so I had to keep the tablet square with the monitor. I naturally draw at an angle with my paper, and not usually with the paper taped in a perfectly squared position where I need to move my body in order to achieve a natural arm movement for lines and such. My main issue was that, while the tablet could be rotated easily, the monitor (and therefore the image) could not. Doing simple things like parallel lines are almost impossible, for example. The problems with it were related mostly to the fact that you don’t look at your hand as you draw. ![]() It was pretty efficient and once I got the hang of it I could color pretty fast. It was weird at first looking at a computer screen and not at my hands when I was coloring, but I quickly got used to it. ![]() I took the plunge about 3 years ago, and while I have never regretted it there are a few things I would like to see improved with the Cintiq.įor years I colored digitally using a Wacom Intuos tablet, which uses a pen not only for the movements of the cursor but also uses the amount of pressure you apply to the tablet surface to control things like the size of the brush and the opacity of the color. In the meantime, I thought I’d share my thoughts on the tools I use for digital painting, specifically the Wacom Cintiq and how it differs from the traditional graphics tablet. I am putting together an extensive tutorial on my line art coloring process, complete with screen capture video, for later this month, so look for that soon. A lot of people are interested in digital painting and using the computer for color illustration.
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