love Rx
July 17th, 2007, 08:46 PM
it is now time to invest in a tablet and replace the scanner that died years ago in my garage.
its my high school graduation present so money is not to much of an object.
my 2 biggest fears with tablet use are that the tablet will be too small and will make me feel cramped; the other is that if its too big I will have a tough time navigating my way through the surface (losing sight of the cursor, losing track of point a to point b, and being forced to travel a million miles across the surface and losing energy, focus and control
I draw comics and concepts for the characters and places in my stories
I like to draw in small fine details and scrunch over my desk focusing on tiny areas at a time, but I enjoy large paper size since it helps me map out the perspective lines and get a feel for the overall layout of my fictional environment. I want the freedom to focus in on details and expressively make loose sweeping gestures and perspective checks at the same time. I want it to be seemless. with the smaller tablets I feel that I would be forced to scroll up and down and left and right and zoom in and out way to much. I want to minimize how often I have to fuck around with settings(particularly in terms of zooming and scrolling...ewww)
I usually draw on paper size that is 8.5x11 and 9x12 for larger renderings.
I am strongly considering purchasing an wacom intuos 9x12. since its the closest to my monitor size and the size of the paper I use.
are prefered paper size and screen size a good criteria to pick a tablet?
I want the ability to make large sweeping impressions as well as bend over like a hunchback carefully focusing on 2 inches of space for fine detailing
is a 9x12 a good choice for me?
as for my scanner I was thinking of buying either a canoscan lide 25
or a CanoScan 8600F.
is the canoscan lide 25 good enough for my purposes?
I have no need to scan photos and such.
which scanner should I buy? I want a scanner that is excellent in scanning pencil and ink drawings as well as watercolored paintings.
thanks for the help
its my high school graduation present so money is not to much of an object.
my 2 biggest fears with tablet use are that the tablet will be too small and will make me feel cramped; the other is that if its too big I will have a tough time navigating my way through the surface (losing sight of the cursor, losing track of point a to point b, and being forced to travel a million miles across the surface and losing energy, focus and control
I draw comics and concepts for the characters and places in my stories
I like to draw in small fine details and scrunch over my desk focusing on tiny areas at a time, but I enjoy large paper size since it helps me map out the perspective lines and get a feel for the overall layout of my fictional environment. I want the freedom to focus in on details and expressively make loose sweeping gestures and perspective checks at the same time. I want it to be seemless. with the smaller tablets I feel that I would be forced to scroll up and down and left and right and zoom in and out way to much. I want to minimize how often I have to fuck around with settings(particularly in terms of zooming and scrolling...ewww)
I usually draw on paper size that is 8.5x11 and 9x12 for larger renderings.
I am strongly considering purchasing an wacom intuos 9x12. since its the closest to my monitor size and the size of the paper I use.
are prefered paper size and screen size a good criteria to pick a tablet?
I want the ability to make large sweeping impressions as well as bend over like a hunchback carefully focusing on 2 inches of space for fine detailing
is a 9x12 a good choice for me?
as for my scanner I was thinking of buying either a canoscan lide 25
or a CanoScan 8600F.
is the canoscan lide 25 good enough for my purposes?
I have no need to scan photos and such.
which scanner should I buy? I want a scanner that is excellent in scanning pencil and ink drawings as well as watercolored paintings.
thanks for the help